- The
sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a
tern in the
family Laridae. It is a
seabird of the
tropical oceans, and remarkably, has
evolved the ability...
- land,
although some
marine species, like the
Aleutian tern, may
wander far from land. The
sooty tern is
entirely oceanic when not breeding, and
healthy young...
- s****-birds.
Sixteen seabird species inhabited Tern Island in the
early 21st century, including:
Sooty tern White tern Brown noddy Black noddy Masked booby Brown...
-
bridled terns are
scaly grey
above and pale below. This
species is
unlikely to be
confused with any
tern apart from the
similarly dark-backed
sooty tern and...
- O. aleuticus, O.
fuscatus (
Sooty tern), and O.
anaethetus (Bridled
tern), are
related only
distantly to the "typical"
terns retained in a much-restricted...
- The
greater crested tern (Thal****eus bergii), also
called crested tern,
swift tern, or
great crested tern, is a
tern in the
family Laridae that
nests in...
-
Within the genus,
Aleutian tern is the most divergent,
splitting off from the rest
about ten
million years ago; then
sooty tern diverged about seven to eight...
- 101
species of birds,
common amongst them
include the
brown noddy and
sooty tern and
water birds such as herons, teals, and gulls.
Pitti island is a declared...
-
traditional ritual competition on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to
collect the
first sooty tern (manu tara) egg of the
season from the
nearby islet of Motu Nui, swim...
- albatross,
masked booby,
lesser frigatebird,
great frigatebird,
sooty tern and
other species of
tern. On
February 6, 1904, Rear
Admiral Robley D.
Evans arrived...
