Onychoprion fuscatus nubilosus (or O. f. oahuensis) on Tern Island (French Frigate Shoals)
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Charadriiformes
Family:
Laridae
Genus:
Onychoprion
Species:
O. fuscatus
Binomial name
Onychoprion fuscatus
(Linnaeus, 1766)
Subspecies
2-9, see text
Synonyms
Onychoprion fuscata (lapsus) Sterna fuscata Linnaeus, 1766 Sterna fuliginosa J.F. Gmelin, 1789[2] Sterna fuscata fuscata Linnaeus, 1766 Sterna fuscata nubilosa
and see text
The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a seabird in the family Laridae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans, returning to land only to breed on islands throughout the equatorial zone.
^BirdLife International (2020). "Onychoprion fuscatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22694740A168895142. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22694740A168895142.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
The sootytern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a seabird in the family Laridae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans, returning to land only to breed on islands...
land, although some marine species, like the Aleutian tern, may wander far from land. The sootytern is entirely oceanic when not breeding, and healthy young...
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 sootytern and...
101 species of birds, common amongst them include the brown noddy and sootytern and water birds such as herons, teals and gulls. Pitti island is a declared...
the genus that holds most terns. Three of the four species are tropical, and one has a sub-polar breeding range. The sootytern has a pan-tropical distribution;...
Motu Nui where the Hopu (representatives from each clan) waited for the sootyterns to lay their first eggs of the season. The Hopu who seized the first...
Recordings label. The liner notes include credits for photos of a roseate tern and sootytern, while the bird on the front cover most closely resembles a black-billed...
around fifteen other species of seabirds. Other accounts estimate the sootytern population to be as high as three to six million birds. James Henderson...
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traditional ritual competition on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to collect the first sootytern (manu tara) egg of the season from the nearby islet of Motu Nui, swim...
in the Humboldt Current. The sooty shearwater undertakes an annual migration cycle that rivals that of the Arctic tern; birds that nest in New Zealand...
Caribbean States, silver compass rose, Les Pitons (volcanoes) in St. Lucia, sootytern, tropical fish EC$100 St. Lucian economist Sir William Arthur Lewis, map...
The greater crested tern (Thalasseus bergii), also called crested tern or swift tern, is a tern in the family Laridae that nests in dense colonies on...
chicks at their breeding colonies, taking mostly the chicks of sootyterns, spectacled terns, brown noddies, black noddies and even from other great frigatebirds...
albatross, masked booby, lesser frigatebird, great frigatebird, sootytern and other species of tern. On February 6, 1904, Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans arrived...
two species. The sootytern also breeds on the islands. Other common birds include cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) and the fairy tern (Gygis alba). More...
crab and is an important breeding site for seabirds, most notably the sootytern. The atoll is known as the first place on Earth to see sunrise each day...
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other seabirds, including boobies, petrels, shearwaters and terns, in particular the sootytern. Frigatebirds will rob other seabirds such as boobies, particularly...
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