-
skimmers or skuas, and
although Charles Lucien Bonaparte created the
family Sternidae for the
terns in 1838, for many
years they were
considered to be a subfamily...
- a
separate family,
Sternidae, and the
skimmers in a
third family, Rynchopidae. The
noddies were
traditionally included in
Sternidae. In 1990
Charles Sibley...
- 1963–1985
Noddy (bird),
several species of
tropical seabirds of the
family Sternidae in the
genera Anous, Procelsterna, and
Gygis Noddy, or nod shot, a video...
-
station near
Forster Square Forster's tern, a
seabird of the tern family,
Sternidae Forester (disambiguation)
Forrester (disambiguation)
Foster (disambiguation)...
- The
following is a list of
birds found in and
around Bengaluru in Karnataka, India. The
Nandi Hills,
Bannerghatta forest ranges and the
Kaveri valley/Sangam...
- 'seagulls' by the layperson. The
American Ornithologists'
Union combines the
Sternidae, Stercorariidae, and
Rhynchopidae as
subfamilies in the
family Laridae...
- Charadriidae, Scolopacidae, Phalaropodidae, Recurvirostridae, Rynchopidae,
Sternidae, Laridae, Stercorariidae, Alcidae".
Bulletin of the
United States National...
-
original (PDF) on 2011-04-19. Gochfeld, M. & Burger, J. 1996.
Family Sternidae (terns). In: Del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A A. & Sargatal, J. (Eds). Handbook...
- on
their heads.
Terns were
formerly placed in a
family of
their own,
Sternidae, but now they are
commonly placed along with
gulls and
skimmers in Laridae...
- Laridae; it has also been
treated like
other terns in
their own
family Sternidae by some authors. Forster's tern was
named by
Thomas Nuttall in
honor of...
