Family

Laridae

98 species · Animals

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Snowy-crowned Tern

Sterna trudeaui Audubon, 1838

Sterna trudeaui, the snowy-crowned tern, is a bird species with defined plumage traits and a South American range.

River Tern

Sterna aurantia J.E.Gray, 1831

Sterna aurantia, the river tern, is a medium-large Asian tern with decreasing populations due to habitat threats.

Roseate Tern

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.

Arctic Tern

Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763

Sterna paradisaea, the Arctic tern, is a medium-sized migratory seabird famous for the longest animal migration on Earth.

Common Tern

Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758

Sterna hirundo, the common tern, is a migratory seabird with detailed plumage, range, and feeding traits described.

Black-naped Tern

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.

South American Tern

Sterna hirundinacea R.Lesson, 1831

Sterna hirundinacea, the South American tern, is a larger tern relative found along the coasts of southern South America.

Forster's Tern

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.

Black-bellied Tern

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.

White-cheeked Tern

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.

Antarctic Tern

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.

White-fronted Tern

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.

Black Tern

Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus, 1758)

Chlidonias niger, the black tern, is a small migratory tern species that breeds across North America, Europe, and western Asia.

White-winged Tern

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.