Laridae
Sterna trudeaui Audubon, 1838
Sterna trudeaui Audubon, 1838
Sterna trudeaui, the snowy-crowned tern, is a bird species with defined plumage traits and a South American range.
Sterna aurantia J.E.Gray, 1831
Sterna aurantia J.E.Gray, 1831
Sterna aurantia, the river tern, is a medium-large Asian tern with decreasing populations due to habitat threats.
Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813
Sterna dougallii Montagu, 1813
Sterna dougallii, the roseate tern, is a small-medium marine tern with distinctive pink breeding underparts that occasionally steals food from other seabirds.
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763
Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763
Sterna paradisaea, the Arctic tern, is a medium-sized migratory seabird famous for the longest animal migration on Earth.
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758
Sterna hirundo, the common tern, is a migratory seabird with detailed plumage, range, and feeding traits described.
Sterna sumatrana Raffles, 1822
Sterna sumatrana Raffles, 1822
Sterna sumatrana, the black-naped tern, is a small seabird with a characteristic black neck band that lives on Indo-Pacific rocky shores.
Sterna hirundinacea R.Lesson, 1831
Sterna hirundinacea R.Lesson, 1831
Sterna hirundinacea, the South American tern, is a larger tern relative found along the coasts of southern South America.
Sterna forsteri Nuttall, 1834
Sterna forsteri Nuttall, 1834
Forster's tern (Sterna forsteri) is a medium-sized North American marsh tern that has different plumage for breeding and non-breeding seasons, and nests colonially.
Sterna acuticauda J.E.Gray, 1831
Sterna acuticauda J.E.Gray, 1831
This is a summary of the black-bellied tern, an inland South Asian river tern with specific plumage and feeding habits.
Sterna repressa E.Hartert, 1916
Sterna repressa E.Hartert, 1916
The white-cheeked tern (Sterna repressa) is a Least Concern tern found across tropical and subtropical Middle Eastern and South Asian coasts.
Sterna vittata J.F.Gmelin, 1789
Sterna vittata J.F.Gmelin, 1789
Sterna vittata, the Antarctic tern, is a medium-sized southern hemisphere seabird with distinct plumages and opportunistic feeding habits.
Sterna striata J.F.Gmelin, 1789
Sterna striata J.F.Gmelin, 1789
Sterna striata, the white-fronted tern, is a medium-sized coastal tern found in Australia and New Zealand that feeds on small fish.
Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)
Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)
Chlidonias niger, the black tern, is a small migratory tern species that breeds across North America, Europe, and western Asia.
Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815)
Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815)
Chlidonias leucopterus is a bird that breeds across Eurasia and winters in Africa, southern Asia and Australia, occasionally vagrating to the Americas.
Chlidonias hybrida (Pallas, 1811)
Chlidonias hybrida (Pallas, 1811)
Chlidonias hybrida, the whiskered tern, is a marsh tern with distinct plumage traits by age and season that eats small aquatic and terrestrial prey.
Chlidonias albostriatus (G.R.Gray, 1845)
Chlidonias albostriatus (G.R.Gray, 1845)
Chlidonias albostriatus, the black-fronted tern, is a small-medium New Zealand bird with specific appearance, range and conservation needs.
Larosterna inca (R.Lesson & Garnot, 1827)
Larosterna inca (R.Lesson & Garnot, 1827)
Larosterna inca, the Inca tern, is a distinctive plumaged seabird native to the Humboldt Current region of western South America.
Phaetusa simplex (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)
Phaetusa simplex (J.F.Gmelin, 1789)
Phaetusa simplex, the large-billed tern, is a large yellow-billed tern with defined plumage that varies between breeding and non-breeding adults.
Onychoprion fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Onychoprion fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1766)
Onychoprion fuscatus, the sooty tern, is a pelagic medium-large migratory tern that is not currently threatened.
Onychoprion anaethetus (Scopoli, 1786)
Onychoprion anaethetus (Scopoli, 1786)
Onychoprion anaethetus, the bridled tern, is a medium-sized marine migratory tern with four disputed subspecies distributed across tropical oceans.
Onychoprion aleuticus (S.F.Baird, 1869)
Onychoprion aleuticus (S.F.Baird, 1869)
Onychoprion aleuticus, the Aleutian tern, is a medium-sized migratory tern breeding in subarctic Pacific coasts.
Sternula albifrons (Pallas, 1764)
Sternula albifrons (Pallas, 1764)
Sternula albifrons, the little tern, is a small migratory tern with distinctive plumage and feeding habits.
Sternula antillarum R.Lesson, 1847
Sternula antillarum R.Lesson, 1847
This is a description of the feeding, roosting, nesting, and predation patterns of the least tern Sternula antillarum.
Sternula superciliaris (Vieillot, 1819)
Sternula superciliaris (Vieillot, 1819)
Sternula superciliaris is a small bird with distinct adult plumage and differing juvenile coloration.
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