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...

shore-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...

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...

Anous minutus Sooty tern, Onychoprion fuscata Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus Least tern, Sternula antillarum Gull-billed tern, Gelochelidon nilotica...

tern (Onychoprion lunatus), also known as the grey-backed tern, is a seabird in the family Laridae. A close relative of the bridled and sooty terns (with...

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...

O. aleuticus, O. fuscatus (Sooty tern), and O. anaethetus (Bridled tern), are related only distantly to the "typical" terns retained in a much-restricted...

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...

The greater crested tern (Thalasseus bergii), also called crested tern, swift tern, or great crested tern, is a tern in the family Laridae that nests in...

albatross, masked booby, lesser frigatebird, great frigatebird, sooty tern and other species of tern. On February 6, 1904, Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans arrived...

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...

Sooty swift Sooty tern Sooty thicket fantail Sooty thrush Sooty tyrannulet Sooty-capped babbler Sooty-capped chlorospingus Sooty-capped hermit Sooty-capped...

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...

crab and is an important breeding site for seabirds, most notably the sooty tern. The atoll is known as the first place on Earth to see sunrise each day...

Caribbean States, silver compass rose, Les Pitons (volcanoes) in St. Lucia, sooty tern, tropical fish EC$100 St. Lucian economist Sir William Arthur Lewis, map...

1982–1983 decline Little white tern (Gygis microrhyncha) – 8,000 birds before the 1982–1983 decline Central Pacific sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus oahuensis)...

Key is the site of a large tern rookery. It is closed to visitors from February to September to protect nesting sooty terns and brown noddys. Long Key...

two species. The sooty tern also breeds on the islands. Other common birds include cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) and the fairy tern (Gygis alba). More...

shearwater, Australasian gannet, sooty tern (known locally as the whale bird), red-tailed tropicbird, and grey noddy. The sooty tern has traditionally been subject...

on Ascension Island, known as "Wideawake", after a nearby colony of sooty terns (locally called 'wideawake' birds because of their loud, distinctive...

in the Humboldt Current. The sooty shearwater undertakes an annual migration cycle that rivals that of the Arctic tern; birds that nest in New Zealand...

masked booby, great frigatebird, spectacled tern, sooty tern, brown noddy, black noddy, and white tern. It is the world's largest colony of red-tailed...

Fruit of B. diffusa stuck to face of juvenile sooty tern...

Nui legends of Easter Island, Chile, in particular the race for the sooty tern's egg in the Birdman Cult. The historic details of this film are questionable...

nearby islet, to search for the season's first egg laid by a manutara (sooty tern). The first swimmer to return with an egg and successfully climb back...

around fifteen other species of seabirds. Other accounts estimate the sooty tern population to be as high as three to six million birds. James Henderson...

chicks at their breeding colonies, taking mostly the chicks of sooty terns, spectacled terns, brown noddies, black noddies and even from other great frigatebirds...