Onychoprion lunata (lapsus) Sterna lunata Peale, 1848
The spectacled tern (Onychoprion lunatus), also known as the grey-backed tern, is a seabird in the family Laridae.
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The spectacledtern (Onychoprion lunatus), also known as the grey-backed tern, is a seabird in the family Laridae. A close relative of the bridled and...
considered threatened by the IUCN. On Easter Island, this species and the spectacledtern (O. lunatus) are collectively known as manutara. The manutara played...
Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae that have a worldwide distribution and are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands. Terns are treated...
with any tern apart from the similarly dark-backed sooty tern and the spectacledtern from the Tropical Pacific. It is paler-backed than that sooty, (but...
bridled tern also breeds across the Tropical Atlantic and Indian Ocean but in the central Pacific it is replaced by the spectacledtern. The Aleutian tern breeds...
in the world; around 7,000,000 birds before the 1982–1983 decline Spectacledtern (Onychoprion lunatus) – important breeding colony; 6,000 birds before...
frigatebird, spectacledtern, sooty tern, blue-gray noddy, brown noddy, black noddy and white tern nest on the islands, most of them (16) on Tern Island. Two...
booby, masked booby, great frigatebird, spectacledtern, sooty tern, brown noddy, black noddy, and white tern. It is the world's largest colony of red-tailed...
at their breeding colonies, taking mostly the chicks of sooty terns, spectacledterns, brown noddies, black noddies and even from other great frigatebirds...
Laridae Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds and includes gulls, terns, kittiwakes and skimmers. They are typically grey or white, often with black...
avian family Laridae comprise the noddies, skimmers, kittiwakes, gulls, and terns. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 103 Laridae...
with 14 and Larus (gulls) with 13, while Oenanthe (wheatears), Sterna (terns) and Falco (falcons) each comprise 11 species.[citation needed] The types...
The few animals that live on the mainland are birds such as Antarctic terns, grey-headed albatross, imperial shag, snowy sheathbill and the most well...
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