Black-naped tern
| Black-naped tern | |
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| Lady Elliot Island, Queensland, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Laridae |
| Genus: | Sterna |
| Species: | S. sumatrana
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| Binomial name | |
| Sterna sumatrana Raffles, 1822
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The black-naped tern (Sterna sumatrana) is an oceanic tern mostly found in tropical and subtropical areas of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It is rarely found inland.
Description[]
The tern is about 30 cm long with a wing length of 21–23 cm. Their beaks and legs are black, but the tips of their bills are yellow. They have long forked tails. The black-naped tern has a white face and breast with a grayish-white back and wings. The first couple of their primary feathers are gray.
There are two listed subspecies:
- S. s. mathewsi (Stresemann, 1914) – islands of the western Indian Ocean
- S. s. sumatrana (Raffles, 1822) – islands of the eastern Indian Ocean through to the western Pacific & Australasia
Lady Elliot Island, Qld, Australia
Sterna sumatrana - MHNT
References[]
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Sterna sumatrana". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22694612A132561758. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22694612A132561758.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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Categories:
- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Sterna
- Birds of the Maldives
- Birds of Seychelles
- Birds of Southeast Asia
- Birds of Oceania
- Birds described in 1822
- Charadriiformes stubs