Charadriiformes
Terns (Sternidae)
HBW 3, p. 624
- Small to medium-sized slender, graceful seabirds, with long forked tail; most species grey above with black crown, white below.
- Cosmopolitan.
- Typically marine, coastal or pelagic; some species on inland waters.
- 10 genera, 44 species, 123 taxa.
- 4 species threatened; none extinct since 1600.
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List of species:
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- 19 7 12 8 1 Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
- 22 5 17 8 2 Caspian Tern (Hydroprogne caspia)
- 11 4 7 6 3 Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans)
- 3 1 2 8 4 Lesser Crested Tern (Thalasseus bengalensis)
- 31 2 17 12 8 5 Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
- 0 2 6 Chinese Crested Tern (Thalasseus bernsteini)
- 24 1 8 15 8 7 Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus)
- 19 1 18 8 8 Greater Crested Tern (Thalasseus bergii)
- 3 1 1 1 8 9 River Tern (Sterna aurantia)
- 9 4 5 8 10 Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii)
- 5 1 4 8 12 Black-naped Tern (Sterna sumatrana)
- 13 2 11 8 11 White-fronted Tern (Sterna striata)
- 12 2 1 9 8 13 South American Tern (Sterna hirundinacea)
- 48 1 15 32 8 14 Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
- 25 1 8 16 8 15 Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
- 28 2 14 12 8 16 Antarctic Tern (Sterna vittata)
- 1 1 6 17 Kerguelen Tern (Sterna virgata)
- 16 5 11 8 18 Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
- 7 2 5 8 19 Trudeau's Tern (Sterna trudeaui)
- 15 9 6 8 20 Little Tern (Sterna albifrons)
- 1 1 8 21 Saunders' Tern (Sterna saundersi)
- 9 5 4 8 22 Least Tern (Sterna antillarum)
- 5 3 2 8 23 Yellow-billed Tern (Sterna superciliaris)
- 1 1 3 24 Peruvian Tern (Sterna lorata)
- 5 1 4 4 25 Fairy Tern (Sterna nereis)
- 2 1 1 6 26 Damara Tern (Sterna balaenarum)
- 3 1 2 8 27 White-cheeked Tern (Sterna repressa)
- 1 1 6 28 Black-bellied Tern (Sterna acuticauda)
- 2 2 8 29 Aleutian Tern (Sterna aleutica)
- 1 1 8 30 Grey-backed Tern (Sterna lunata)
- 1 1 3 33 Black-fronted Tern (Sterna albostriata)
- 4 1 3 8 31 Bridled Tern (Sterna anaethetus)
- 26 2 24 8 32 Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata)
- 26 1 7 18 8 34 Whiskered Tern (Chlidonias hybridus)
- 10 2 8 8 35 White-winged Tern (Chlidonias leucopterus)
- 7 3 4 8 36 Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)
- 13 1 7 5 8 37 Large-billed Tern (Phaetusa simplex)
- 20 2 18 8 40 Lesser Noddy (Anous tenuirostris)
- 7 1 6 8 39 Black Noddy (Anous minutus)
- 17 2 15 8 38 Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)
- 0 8 41 Blue Noddy (Procelsterna cerulea)
- 1 1 8 42 Grey Noddy (Procelsterna albivitta)
- 22 2 20 8 43 White Tern (Gygis alba)
- 34 21 13 6 44 Inca Tern (Larosterna inca)
Family statistics
10 genera, 44 species
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| 10 genera | (100%) |
| 42 species | (95%) |
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