Habitat
In northern Alaska, breeds in both low-lying marshy tundra and drier tussock-heath tundra, near the coast and inland to foothills and passes of the Brooks Range (Maher 1970, 1974). Nest usually places in low-lying marshy tundra, with sedge meadows, low-center polygons, and sphagnum or frost mounds, often near a lake, river, or coast (Brandt 1943, Parmelee et al. 1967, Maher 1974, Taylor 1974, Portenko 1989). In coastal tundra of northern Yukon, this species is found at lakes (Salter et al. 1980) and in late summer, it is found in riparian vegetation dominated by shrubby willows (Maher 1974).
References
Brandt, H. 1943. Alaska bird trails. Bird Res. Foundation, Cleveland, OH.
Maher, W. J. 1970. The Pomarine jaeger as a brown lemming predator in northern Alaska. Wilson Bull. 82: 130-157.
Maher, W. K. 1974. Ecology of Pomarine, Parasitic, and Long-tailed jaeger s in northern Alaska. Pacific Coast Avifauna 37.
Parmelee, D. F., H. A. Stephens, and R. H. Schmidt. 1967. The birds of Southeastern Victoria Island and adjacent small islands. National Museum Canadian Bulletin no. 222.
Portenko, L. A. 1989. Birds of the Chukchi Peninsula and Wrangell Island. Vol. 2. Amerind Publ. Co., New Delhi (Russian ed., 1973).
Salter, R. E., M. A. Gollop, S. R. Johnson, W. R. Koski, and C. E. Tull. 1980. Distribution and abundance of birds on the arctic coastal plains of the Northern Yukon and adjacent Northwest Territories, 1971-1976. Can. Field-Nat. 94: 219-238.
Taylor, P. S. 1974. Summer populations and food ecology of jaegers and snowy owls on Bathurst Island, N.W.T. Unpubl. Thesis, Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton.
