- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-
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...
-
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...
- O. aleuticus, O.
fuscatus (
Sooty tern), and O.
anaethetus (Bridled
tern), are
related only
distantly to the "typical"
terns retained in a much-restricted...
- frigatebird,
spectacled tern,
sooty tern, blue-gray noddy,
brown noddy,
black noddy and
white tern nest on the islands, most of them (16) on
Tern Island. Two species...
-
Recordings label. The
liner notes include credits for
photos of a
roseate tern and
sooty tern,
while the bird on the
front cover most
closely resembles a black-billed...
- 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...
- Motu Nui
where the Hopu (representatives from each clan)
waited for the
sooty terns to lay
their first eggs of the season. The Hopu who
seized the first...
