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Black tern Chlidonias niger
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Length: 9 inches Wingspan: 35 inches
Sexes similar
Slow swallow-like flight
Swoops down and picks prey off surface off water
Small tern with relatively short, black bill ...
Black Tern
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BLACK TERN FACTS
Description
In breeding plumage, the Black Tern is dark colored with a black head, neck and chest, and gray wings. In non-breeding plumage the head is white with dark crown and naps; the underside is white and wings gray.
The Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) is a mostly black tern which breeds in on lakes, marshes, and prairie potholes of parts of the northern United States and Canada. It winters on the coasts of Central and South America.
Black Tern Behaviour
No observations regarding Black Tern behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Black Terns ...
Black Tern
(Chlidonias niger)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2009
This species is State Endangered. It is in danger of extinction as a breeding species in the state of Illinois.
Black Tern
Chlidonias niger (Linnaeus)
Status Uncommon transient, rare and local in summer. Breeds. Black Terns arrive in May (average 27 May, earliest 12 May) and transients or non-breeding birds may appear through June.
Black Tern
This report is one in a series of literature syntheses on North American grassland birds. The need for these reports was identified by the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV), a part of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan.
THE BLACK TERN.
[Black Tern.]
STERNA NIGRA, Linn.
[Chlidonias niger.] ...
Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)
Terns are gull like but slimmer, with pointed wings and beaks. In breeding plumage the black tern has a black head and underparts and gray wings. In Michigan they prefer open or swampy marsh habitat.
Black Tern Chlidonias niger niger - Adult in breeding plumage
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Black tern juvenile in flight
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Breeding in scattered colonies, often associated with Forster's Terns, Black Terns nest low in marshes, on floating vegetation mats, muskrat houses, or on the ground near water.
Black tern (Chlidonias niger)
Golden jackal (Canis aureus)
Sri Lanka junglefowl (Gallus lafayetii)
Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)
Shorea (Shorea trapezifolia)
Cotylelobium (Cotylelobium scabriusculum) ...
Black Tern
Summer Sighting Information: occasional
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Caspian Tern
Summer Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Black Tern Chlidonias niger. Common in summer and fall, fairly common in spring, and occasional in winter in Gulf Coast region. In other regions, uncommon in fall, and rare in spring and summer. Pelagic.
White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus
Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida
Little Tern Sterna albifrons ...
Black Tern Chlidonius niger: Cupsogue Beach County Park, Westhampton, NY, 26 Jun
Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii: Cupsogue Beach County Park, Westhampton, NY, 26 Jun
Common Tern Sterna hirundo: Great Kills Park, Staten Island, NY, 03 May ...
MANAGEMENT CONSIDERATIONS : A variety of animals use common muskrat lodges including snakes, turtles, toads, Canada geese (Branta canadensis), and black terns (Childonias niger) [14].
Chlidonias niger - Black Tern (photo)
Chlidonias leucopterus - White-winged Black Tern
Alcidae - Alcids
Uria
Uria aalge - Common Murre (photo)
Uria lomvia - Thick-billed Murre
Alca
Alca torda - Razorbill
Cepphus ...
Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)
Bonaparte's Gull (Larus philadelphia)
Bridled Tern (Sterna anaethetus)
Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
Franklin's Gull (Larus pipixcan) ...
This last is the beautiful roseate tern, Sterna dougalli; the other is the black tern, Hydrochelidon nigra, belonging to a genus in which the toes are only halfwebbed, of small size and dark leaden-grey plumage.
The Sooty Tern is a largish black tern with white underparts, forehead and tail streamers. There is a thin white leading edge to the inner wing. Juveniles are similar but greyer with white scallops above and a grey breast.
Location and habitat ...
White-winged black tern
Sterna albostriata. Tarapiroe. Black-fronted tern (endemic)
Sterna Caspia. Taranui. Caspian tern
Sterna Striata. Tara. White-fronted tern
Sterna fuscata. Sooty tern
Sterna vittata. Antarctic tern
Sterna nereis.
Tern, White-winged aka White-winged Black Tern Chlidonias leucopterus Found: South eastern Europe, Africa, Australia
Photographed by Dick Daniels in St. Lucia, South Africa
Genus Gelochelidon - 1 species ...
Flying the flight feathers were silver-grey catching the light and reminiscent of black tern colouring. Viewed from below the wings appeared sooty-black.
 See also: Common Tern, Purple, Arctic Tern, Caspian Tern, Sandpiper
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