Bridled tern Sterna anaethetus
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Length: 14 inches
Sexes similar
Medium-sized tern with long wings
Dark, slender, pointed bill
Long, dark, deeply forked tail
Smoothly rounded head without crest
Gray-brown upperparts ...
Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus
Described by: Scopoli (1786)
Alternate common name(s): Brown-winged Tern
Old scientific name(s): Haliplana anaetheta, Onychoprion anaethetus ...
Australian Bridled Tern (novaehollandiae = anaethetus), Brown-winged Tern, Atlantic Bridled Tern, Red Sea Bridled Tern
Bird Family :
Sternini - Terns & noddies ...
Avibirds European birdguide online
Your source to the birds of Europe: Bridled Tern (Onychoprion anaethetus)
Similar species Sternidae ...
Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus
Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata
Bridled Terns on July 2007 BBC Extreme Shelf Edge Pelagic by Steve Mirick. All photos on this page remain the property of the photographer.
Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus. Uncommon in spring, summer, and fall offshore. Occasional onshore after storms. Pelagic. Found in the Gulf.
BRIDLED TERN Onychoprion anaethetus: Jones Beach State Park, NY, 28 Aug
Least Tern Sternula antillarum: Cape May Point State Park, Cape May, NJ, 13 May ...
Bridled Tern (Sterna anaethetus)
Caspian Tern (Sterna caspia)
Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri)
Franklin's Gull (Larus pipixcan)
Greater Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus)
Gull-billed Tern (Sterna nilotica) ...
Bridled tern (Sterna anaethetus)
Jabiru stork (Jabiru mycteria)
Green honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza)
Striped guitarfish (Zapteryx exasperata)
Anthodiscus (Anthodiscus chocoensis)
Green and black poison frog (Dendrobates auratus) ...
Masked Booby
Magnificent Frigatebird
Bridled Tern
Sooty Tern
The Storm-Petrels are most common from May through August and become scarce by September. Cory's Shearwater is more common in August and September.
Least Tern, Sternula antillarum
Bridled Tern, Onychoprion anaethetus
Sooty Tern, Onychoprion fuscata
Black Tern, Chlidonias niger (A)
Large-billed Tern, Phaetusa simplex (A)
Brown Noddy, Anous stolidus ...
 See also: Sooty tern, Purple, Curlew, Common Tern, Knot
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