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
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11646069
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scientific name	Sterna hirundo
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**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).