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Most terns hunt fish by diving, often hovering first, and the particular approach technique used can help to distinguish similar species at a distance. [55] Sea terns often hunt in association with porpoises or predatory fish, such as bluefish, tuna or bonitos, since these large marine animals drive the prey to the surface. Sooty terns feed at ...
Common tern Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Laridae Genus: Sterna Species: S. hirundo Binomial name Sterna hirundo Linnaeus, 1758 Breeding Resident Non-breeding Passage Vagrant (seasonality uncertain) Synonyms Sterna fluviatilis (Naumann, 1839) Twisted head The ...
Laridae is a family of seabirds in the order Charadriiformes that includes the gulls, terns, noddies, skimmers, and kittiwakes. It includes around 100 species arranged into 22 genera . They are an adaptable group of mostly aerial birds found worldwide.
Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Pacific Ocean, western Indian Ocean, Caribbean and West Africa. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Sooty tern. Onychoprion fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1766) Red Sea across Indian Ocean to at least central Pacific. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Aleutian tern. Onychoprion aleuticus (Baird, 1869) Alaska and easternmost Siberia to Australia: Size ...
Illustration of Sterna striata from A History of the Birds of New Zealand, Buller,1888. The white-fronted tern is described as an average-sized bird. Its dimensions are 35–43 cm (14–17 in) in length, with a wingspan between 79 and 82 cm (31 and 32 in); the male weighs on average 130 g (4.6 oz). [3]
The black-fronted tern (Chlidonias albostriatus), also known as sea martin, ploughboy, inland tern, riverbed tern or tarapiroe, [2] [page needed] is a small tern generally found in or near bodies of fresh water in New Zealand, where it forages for freshwater fish, arthropods and worms. It has a predominantly grey plumage.
The species inhabits tropical coasts and inshore waters, foraging mainly within 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) of land over coral reefs.Its nest is a shallow scrape on rock, sand, gravel or coral islands, bare and exposed sandflats and sparsely vegetated open ground on sand-dunes and above the high-water mark on beaches.
Juvenile gull-billed terns have a fainter mask, but otherwise look much like winter adults. Juvenile Sandwich terns have a short bill, and are frequently mistaken for gull-billed tern where the latter species is uncommon, such as North Sea coasts.