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 - profile
Scientific name: Sterna fuscata
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
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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.
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THE SOOTY TERN.
[Sooty Tern.]
STERNA FULIGINOSA, Lath.
[Sterna fuscata.] ...
Sooty Tern Sterna fuscata nubilosa - Juvenile in flight
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The Sooty Tern can be active during the day and night mainly feeding on fish and other small (2-8cm) aquatic animals taken from near the ocean surface.
Sooty Tern
Whiskered Tern
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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.
The juvenile Sooty Tern is similarly dark but has a pale belly, a forked tail, and lacks the pale cap. The Black Noddy is very similar but is smaller, has a more slender bill, a more prominent white cap, and is blacker.
SOOTY TERN Onychoprion fuscatus: Point Lookout, NY, 28 Aug
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 ...
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 (Sterna fuscata)
Swallow-tailed kite (Elanoides forficatus)
Collared plover (Charadrius collaris)
Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus)
Great egret (Casmerodius albus)
Black-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) ...
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) ...
 See also: Curlew, Purple, Sandpiper, Whimbrel, Petrel
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