Sterna sumatrana, Raffles, 1822

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.11646067
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scientific name	Sterna sumatrana
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**BLACK-NAPED TERN Sterna sumatrana View in CoL

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

Status Occasional visitor. Widespread and sometimes common in New Guinea waters (Beehler & Pratt 2016) but just two records for Biak and Supiori: 17 July 1994, 40 off Wundi (Padaido Islands) (D. Roberson, eBird checklist S6813691); 6 August 2015: ten off Rani (N. Voaden, eBird checklist S24512191).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Laridae
Genus	Sterna

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