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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 ...
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. The Aleutian tern breeds around Alaska and Siberia but winters in the tropics around South East Asia.
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 ...
Bridled tern (sterne bridée), Onychoprion anaethetus; Least tern (petite sterne), Sternula antillarum; Gull-billed tern (sterne hansel), Gelochelidon nilotica (A) Caspian tern (sterne Caspienne), Hydroprogne caspia (A) Black tern (guifette noire), Chlidonias niger (A) White-winged tern (guifette leucoptère), Chlidonias leucopterus (A)
Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus (A) Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii; Black-naped tern, Sterna sumatrana (A) Great crested tern, Thalasseus bergii; Tropicbirds.
Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus; Least tern, Sternula antillarum; Yellow-billed Tern, Sternula superciliaris (A) Large-billed tern, Phaetusa simplex (A) Gull-billed tern, Gelochelidon nilotica; Caspian tern, Hydroprogne caspia; Inca tern, Larosterna inca (A) Black tern, Chlidonias niger; Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii (A) Common tern ...
Another bird on the list, the Bridled white-eye found in Guam, became extinct from being hunted by brown tree snakes on the island, according to the Center for Biological Diversity.
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