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skimmers or skuas, and
although Charles Lucien Bonaparte created the
family Sternidae for the
terns in 1838, for many
years they were
considered to be a subfamily...
- a
separate family,
Sternidae, and the
skimmers in a
third family, Rynchopidae. The
noddies were
traditionally included in
Sternidae. In 1990
Charles Sibley...
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station near
Forster Square Forster's tern, a
seabird of the tern family,
Sternidae Forester (disambiguation)
Forrester (disambiguation)
Foster (disambiguation)...
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seagulls by the layperson. The
American Ornithologists'
Union combines the
Sternidae, Stercorariidae, and
Rhynchopidae as
subfamilies in the
family Laridae...
-
families listed are
classed as seabirds.)
Stercorariidae skuas Laridae gulls Sternidae terns Rhynchopidae skimmers Alcidae auks For an
alternative taxonomy of...
- Charadriidae, Scolopacidae, Phalaropodidae, Recurvirostridae, Rynchopidae,
Sternidae, Laridae, Stercorariidae, Alcidae".
Bulletin of the
United States National...
- The
following is a list of
birds found in and
around Bangalore in Karnataka, India. The
Nandi Hills,
Bannerghatta forest ranges and the
Kaveri valley/Sangam...
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original (PDF) on 2011-04-19. Gochfeld, M. & Burger, J. 1996.
Family Sternidae (terns). In: Del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A A. & Sargatal, J. (Eds). Handbook...
- on
their heads.
Terns were
formerly placed in a
family of
their own,
Sternidae, but now they are
commonly placed along with
gulls and
skimmers in Laridae...
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seabirds of
small to medium-large size. The
royal tern is also in the
family Sternidae because of its
white plumage,a
black cap on its head, long bill, webbed...
