- 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...
-
around fifteen other species of seabirds.
Other accounts estimate the
sooty tern po****tion to be as high as
three to six
million birds.
James Henderson...
- 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;...
- Interestingly, 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...
-
recognized as an
Important Bird Area (IBA) by
BirdLife International for its
sooty tern colony, with some 200,000
individual birds estimated in 1999. 56 bird...
- 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...
- (Easter Island). The
ritual was an
annual competition to
collect the
first sooty tern (manu tara) egg of the
season from the
islet of Motu Nui, swim back to...
-
Caribbean States,
silver comp**** rose, Les
Pitons (volcanoes) in St. Lucia,
sooty tern,
tropical fish EC$100 St.
Lucian economist Sir
William Arthur Lewis, map...
