Sterna anaethetus

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Common Names

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Description

Family Laridae

Medium to large birds, usually grey or white, often with black markings on the head or wings. They have stout, longish bills, and webbed feet.

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, pelagic waters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: High

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,085 meters (0 to 6,841 feet).[1]

Biome: Terrestrial

Ecology: List of Habitats : 10.1 Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)

Biology

Diet

Almost exclusively fish, with some aquatic invertebrates .

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001.

Similar Species

Sooty Tern

Members of the genus Sterna

There are approximately 150 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

S. acuticauda (Black-Bellied Tern) · S. affinis · S. alb · S. albifrons (Silver Ternlet) · S. albifrons albifrons (Little Striker) · S. albifrons athalassos (Little Tern) · S. albifrons browni · S. albifrons guineae · S. albifrons saundersi · S. albifrons sinensis · S. albistriata (Black-Fronted Tern) · S. albostriata (Black-Fronted Tern) · S. aleutica (Aleutian Tern) · S. anaesthetus · S. anaetheta (Bridled Tern) · S. anaethetus (Brown-Winged Tern) · S. anaethetus anaethetus (Brown-Winged Tern) · S. anaethetus antarctica · S. anaethetus fuligula · S. anaethetus melanoptera · S. anaethetus nelsoni · S. anaethetus recognita (Bridled Tern) · S. anaethetus ssp · S. anathetus · S. anglica · S. antarctica · S. antillarum (Least Tern) · S. antillarum albifrons (Little Tern) · S. antillarum anthalassos · S. antillarum antillarum (Least Tern) · S. antillarum athalassos (Interior Least Tern) · S. antillarum browni (California Least Tern) · S. aurantia (Indian River Tern) · S. balaenarum (Damara Tern) · S. bengalensis (Lesser Crested-Tern) · S. bengalensis bengalensis (Lesser Crested Tern) · S. bengalensis emigrata · S. bengalensis par · S. bengalensis torresii · S. bergii (Greater Crested Tern) · S. bergii bergii (Greater Crested Tern) · S. bergii cristata · S. bergii cristatus · S. bergii thalassina · S. bergii velox · S. bernsteini (Chinese Crested Tern) · S. cantiaca · S. caspia (Caspian Tern) · S. caspia caspia (Caspian Tern) · S. caspia imperator · S. cautiaca · S. dougalii · S. dougalli · S. dougallii (Mcdougall's Tern) · S. dougallii arideensis · S. dougallii bangsi · S. dougallii dougalli · S. dougallii dougallii (Mcdougall's Tern) · S. dougallii gracilis · S. dougallii korustes · S. dougalli bangsi · S. dougalli dougalli · S. elegans (Elegant Tern) · S. eurygnatha (Cayenne Tern) · S. forsteri (ForsterÃŒs Tern) · S. fuliginosa · S. fuscata (Sooty Tern) · S. fuscata crissalis (Sooty Tern) · S. fuscata fuscata (Sooty Tern) · S. fuscata kermadeci · S. fuscata luctuosa · S. fuscata nubilosa · S. fuscata oahuensis · S. fuscata serrata · S. fuscata ssp · S. hirundinacea (South American Tern) · S. hirundo (Lake Erie Gull) · S. hirundo hirundo (Lake Erie Gull) · S. hirundo longipennis · S. hirundo minussensis · S. hirundo ssp · S. hirundo tibetana · S. hybrida · S. javanica · S. lercoptera · S. leucopareia · S. leucoptera · S. longipennis · S. lorata (Peruvian Tern) · S. lunata (Gray-Backed Tern) · S. macroptera · S. macrura · S. maxima (Royal Tern) · S. maxima albididorsalis · S. maxima albidorsalis · S. maxima maxima (Royal Tern) · S. media · S. melanauchen · S. melanogaster (Black-Bellied Tern) · S. melanoptera

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Further Reading

• A naturalist in the Bahamas: John I. Northrop, October 12 1861 - June 25, 1891; a memorial volume, ed., with a biographical introduction by Henry Fairfield Osborn. New York, The Columbia university press[c1910] ENG url p. 64.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 135.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush, by Austin C. Apgar. New York, American book company[c1898] ENG url p. 411.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 100, p. 222, p. 487, p. 513, p. 514.
• Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). London: BM(NH) ENG url p. 222.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. ENG url p. 313.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 101.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 504.
• Color key to North American birds, with bibliographical appendix, by Frank M. Chapman with upwards of 800 drawings, by Chester A. Reed, B.S. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1912. ENG url p. 352.
• Contents and index to volume 1 / Charles B. Cory. Chicago: Natural History Museum, 1917. ENG url p. 360.
• Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. ENG url p. 41.
• Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. ENG url p. 525, p. 601.
• Ornis. Vienna, [1885-1907]. GER url p. 634.
• Postilla. New Haven, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 1950-2004. ENG url p. 5.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 632.
• Results of the first Joint US-USSR Central Pacific Expedition (BERPAC): Autumn 1988 / John F. Turner, [et al.]; P.A. Nagel, editor. Washington, DC: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1992. ENG url p. 242.
• Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Length and wingspan info.)
• Scientific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands / New York Academy of Sciences. New York, N.Y.: The Academy, 1919- url p. 380.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 454, p. 477, p. 480.
• Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary final environmental impact statement/management plan / Sanctuaries and Reserves Division. Washington, D.C.: The Division, [1993] ENG url p. 32.
• The birds of the Leeward islands, Caribbean sea, by Charles B. Cory Chicago, 1909. ENG url p. 195.
• The code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; being the report of the Committee of the Union on Classification and Nomenclature. New York, 1886. ENG url p. 95.
• Transactions - The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; distributed by Archon Books, Hamden, Conn. [etc.], 1866- ENG url p. 533.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas. ENG url p. 31.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Sterna anaethetus. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 8, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 11 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, and quot;Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds, and quot; in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• Australian Antarctic Data Centre: Seabirds of the Southern and South Indian Ocean
• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum: Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• EMAN Provider: PIROP (Shipboard Surveys)
• GBIF-Sweden: Birds (GBIF-SE:Artdatabanken)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3851335
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-176898
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14371211
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 176897
• IUCN ID: 49273
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNNM08140
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13704

Footnotes

1. Mean = -46.330 meters (-152.001 feet), Standard Deviation = 435.750 based on 154 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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