Sooty tern

01/19/98 NAME - Sooty Tern FAMILY - Laridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Sterna fuscata REFERENCES - 1 and 2 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 9 Resident, species present all year.

Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata Linnaeus Status Five records. The first record for Canada was recently dead at Gaspereau, Kings County, on 28 August 1924 (Tufts 1925); a gale from the south had passed over the province on 26 August.

Sooty tern - species profile (PDF - 676KB) Sooty Tern - profile Scientific name: Sterna fuscata Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable ...

Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata Sooty Terns also breed on the island. We had our best looks at this handsome bird on the weekly walk on Eastern Island.

SOOTY TERN, Sterna fuliginosa, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. iii. p. 263;vol. v. p. 641. Male, 16 1/4, 34 3/4. From Texas to the Floridas, in spring. Breeds in immense multitudes on the Tortugas. Migratory.

The Sooty Tern once bred on practically every island group in the Tropics but is now extirpated from many, owing mainly to alteration of habitat, persecution by humans, and the introduction of predators into colonies.

Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata. Rare in summer and fall, and occasional in spring in Gulf Coast region (mostly offshore). Occasional inland in fall due to storms. Pelagic. Found in the Gulf and along barrier islands.

- Sooty Tern: USGS - Whiskered Tern: Nbhogeveen Related Websites: Great Gull Island (Pictures from the ongoing research project on Common Terns and Roseate Terns) ... Terns (Photos - Birding Forum) ...

Often confounded with these last are the two species called in books sooty terns (S. fuliginosa and S. anaestheta), but by sailors " egg-birds or " wide-awakes " from their cry.

Sooty Tern, Robert C. Tweit Least Tern, Robert C. Tweit Gull-billed Tern , William J. Graber III Caspian Tern, Robert C. Tweit Forster's Tern, Robert C. Tweit Royal Tern, Robert C. Tweit Sandwuch Tern, Robert C. Tweit Black Skimmer, Donald H.

Great Frigatebirds will also hunt seabird chicks at their breeding colonies, taking mostly the chicks of Sooty Terns, Grey-backed Terns, Brown Noddies and Black Noddies.

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.

Sooty tern Sterna vittata. Antarctic tern Sterna nereis. Fairy tern (endemic) Sterna albifrons. Little tern Sterna paradisaea. Arctic tern Procelsterna cerulea. Grey ternlet Gygis alba. White tern ...

Although it was first described in 1868, its wintering grounds remain a mystery and much of its life history is unknown. Its closest North American relatives may be the Bridled and Sooty Terns, and all three species are small, ...

Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus) Pomarine Jaeger (Stercorarius pomarinus) Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) Royal Tern (Sterna maxima) Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis) Sooty Tern (Sterna fuscata) ...

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See also: Curlew, Purple, Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Petrel