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The forehead and eyebrows are white, as is a striking collar on the hindneck. It has black legs and bill. Juvenile bridled terns are scaly grey above and pale below. This species is unlikely to be confused with any tern apart from the similarly dark-backed sooty tern and the spectacled tern from the Tropical Pacific. It is paler-backed than ...
Three of the four species are tropical, and one has a sub-polar breeding range. The sooty tern has a pan-tropical distribution; the bridled tern also breeds across the Tropical Atlantic and Indian Ocean but in the central Pacific it is replaced by the spectacled tern .
A few species nest in small or dispersed groups, but most breed in colonies of up to a few hundred pairs, often alongside other seabirds such as gulls or skimmers. [5] Large tern species tend to form larger colonies, [18] which in the case of the sooty tern can contain up to two million pairs. Large species nest very close together and sit ...
Forty-two little tern chicks fledged during this year’s breeding season, the most recorded since 2006, according to the RSPB.
Twenty-one species found across 16 states and in the U.S. territory of Guam are officially extinct, federal wildlife officials declared on Oct. 16. ... Another bird on the list, the Bridled white ...
The avian family Laridae comprise the noddies, skimmers, kittiwakes, gulls, and terns. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 104 Laridae species distributed among 22 genera. This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial. Common name Binomial name IOC sequence African skimmer Rynchops ...
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Samoa. ... Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus; Little tern, Sternula albifrons (A) Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii (A)
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