Sterna hirundo, Linnaeus, 1758

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 35

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11646069

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB878A-FFF3-E118-A38F-FBB9FED8FAAB

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Felipe

scientific name

Sterna hirundo
status

 

**COMMON TERN Sterna hirundo View in CoL

Local names Man Inèy (Sansundi), Man Gep ( Soeparno 1977).

Status Regular visitor. Seasonally abundant in New Guinea waters (Beehler & Pratt 2016) but just three records around Biak: 23 October 1997, ten with a small flock of Thalasseus bergii and Sternula albifrons near Woniki off the south-east coast (SvB); late August 2007, one off the south coast (Bengtsson 2007); 6 August 2015, two off Rani (N. Voaden, eBird checklist S24512191).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Laridae

Genus

Sterna

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