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The common tern [2] (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. Breeding adults have light grey upperparts, white ...
Common tern in flight Common tern in flight. Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae, subfamily Sterninae, that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands. Terns are treated in eleven genera in a subgroup of the family Laridae, which also includes several genera of gulls and the skimmers (Rynchops ...
Common tern: Sterna hirundo: Europe, North Africa, Asia east to western Siberia and Kazakhstan, and North America. Roseate tern: Sterna dougallii: Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, and winters south to the Caribbean and west Africa. White-fronted tern: Sterna striata: New Zealand and Australia Black-naped tern: Sterna sumatrana
The game commission believes since 2012, 21 common tern nests have been started there but failed. Brian Whipkey is the outdoors columnist for USA TODAY Network sites in Pennsylvania.
Laridae on Lake Baikal. The family Laridae was introduced (as Laridia) by the French polymath Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1815. [1] [2] Historically, Laridae were restricted to the gulls, while the terns were placed in a separate family, Sternidae, and the skimmers in a third family, Rynchopidae. [3]
Animals such as foxes, raccoons, and large gulls prey on tern chicks and tern eggs. Tern nesting sites can also be affected by the tides; if a tern colony has nested too close to the high tide mark, a spring tide would flood the nesting site and kill the chicks and make unhatched eggs infertile. [18] [19]
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The slender-billed curlew (included in the list below) was considered "very common" in the early 1800s, rare by the early 1900s. The bird was recorded 103 times between 1980 and 1990, and 74 times between 1990 and 1999.