The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a seabird in the family Laridae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans, returning to land only to breed on islands...

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...

the genus that holds most terns. Three of the four species are tropical, and one has a sub-polar breeding range. The sooty tern has a pan-tropical distribution;...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Australian tern Caspian tern Crested tern White-fronted tern Common tern Antarctic tern Fairy tern Sooty tern Whiskered tern Arctic tern Little tern White-winged...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

The 0.94 km2 coral island is known for its birdlife, including sooty terns, fairy terns and common noddies, and for hawksbill and green turtles. It is...

populations of nesting seabirds, including brown noddies, lesser noddies, sooty terns and Audubon's shearwaters. Baldwin, EA (ed.) (1975), A report on the...

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

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

planned new £700 million International Sports Village. July – A rare sooty tern is spotted in the Skerries, Anglesey. 10 July – The Liberty Stadium opens...

– r Saunders's tern, Sternula saundersi – r Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus – s Sooty tern, Onychoprion fuscata – s Whiskered tern, Chlidonias hybridus...

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...

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