Terns (Sternidae)
Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) - HBW 3, p. 663
French: Guifette noire
German: Trauerseeschwalbe
Spanish: Fumarel Común
Taxonomy: Sterna nigra Linnaeus, 1758, near Uppsala, Sweden.
Genus sometimes merged into Sterna. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- niger (Linnaeus, 1758) - S Scandinavia S to S Spain, and E through E Europe and W Asia to L Balkhash and Altai; winters in Africa.
- surinamensis (Gmelin, 1789) - Great Slave L, S Mackenzie and C Manitoba S to California, and E to Great Lakes, NW Pennsylvania and NW New York, with disjunct populations in Kansas, Indiana and N Vermont; winters in Central America and N South America.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Black tern on it's nest in a Maine freswater marsh. ©2011 Garth McElroy. Locality Maine, USA (United States)
wildbirdvideos 5 June 2011 1 year ago 30 sec 4.7 -
immature flying over Mitchell Lake marsh water Locality Texas, USA (United States)
Malcolm Mark Swan 26 July 2008 4 years ago 1 min 20 sec 4 -
A vagrant (American race) juvenile in flight Locality Eccleston Mere, Lancashire, England, Great Britain (ssp surinamensis)
Greg Baker 3 September 2012 32 weeks ago 20 sec 3.8 -
An adult in winter plumage on the beach Locality Bioko (ssp niger)
Ramón Antor 1986 10 years ago 17 sec 3.2 -
A bird flying Locality Riyadh Province, Saudi Arabia (ssp niger)
Tom Tarrant 1992 7 years ago 24 sec 3 -
A bird changing it's plumage into winter plumage. Locality Overijssel Province, Netherlands
Yoel Jimenez 8 August 2011 1 year ago 13 sec 2.8
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Flying with a little fish.
Locality Novosibirsk Oblast, Western Russia, Russia (ssp niger)
Sergey Pisarevsky 14 July 2012 27 weeks ago 4.2 -
A mottled bird molting out of breeding plumage
Locality Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA (United States)
Erik Breden 21 August 2009 3 years ago 4 -
A bird molting into winter plumage flying by at eye level
Locality Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA (United States)
Erik Breden 21 August 2009 3 years ago 4 -
A bird molting into winter plumage flying by at eye level
Locality Port Aransas, Nueces County, Texas, USA (United States)
Erik Breden 21 August 2009 3 years ago 4 -
Male - perched on a post overlooking a pond
Locality Pambrun, Saskatchewan, Canada
Blair Wainman 6 June 2010 2 years ago 3.8 -
The bird is flying above me.
Locality Beglitskaya Spit, Neklinovsky District, Rostov Oblast, Western Russia, Russia (ssp niger)
Anatoliy Kuzmin 6 May 2012 1 year ago 3.7
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