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Sterna is a
genus of
terns in the bird
family Laridae. The
genus used to encomp**** most "white"
terns indiscriminately, but
mtDNA sequence comparisons...
- The
Arctic tern (
Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the
family Laridae. This bird has a cir****polar
breeding distribution covering the
Arctic and sub-Arctic...
- Look up
Sterna or
sterna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sterna is a
genus of seabirds.
Sterna may also
refer to:
Sterna, the
plural of sternum, the...
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Šterna is a
village in the muni****lity of Grožnjan in Istria, Croatia.
According to the 2021 census, its po****tion was 70.
Until the
territorial reorganization...
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described by Carl
Linnaeus in 1766 as
Sterna fuscata,
bearing this name for many
years until the
genus Sterna was
split up. It is now
known as Onychoprion...
- The
common tern (
Sterna hirundo) is a
seabird in the
family Laridae. This bird has a cir****polar distribution, its four
subspecies breeding in temperate...
- Naturae,
placing the
gulls in the
genus Larus and the
terns in
Sterna. He gave
Sterna the
description rostrum subulatum, "awl-shaped bill", referring...
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white in the winter. The
greater crested tern was
originally described as
Sterna bergii by
German naturalist Martin Lichtenstein in 1823, but was
moved to...
- but in 1783 the
Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the
binomial name
Sterna maxima in his
catalogue of the
Planches Enluminées. The
royal tern is now...
- The
roseate tern (
Sterna dougallii) is a
species of tern in the
family Laridae. The
genus name
Sterna is
derived from Old
English "stearn", "tern", and...