Spectacled Tern

Onychoprion lunatus - Sterne à dos gris

Systematics

Order
:
Charadriiformes
Family
:
Laridés
Genus
:
Onychoprion
Species
:
lunatus

Descriptor

Peale, 1849

Biometrics

Size
: 38 cm
Wingspan
: 73 à 76 cm.
Weight
: 115 à 177 g

Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Spectacled Tern (Onychoprion lunatus) is a species of bird in the Laridae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

Sterne à dos gris,
Charrán lunado,
gaivina-de-dorso-cinzento,
Brillenseeschwalbe,
szürkehátú csér,
Fijistern,
Sterna dorsogrigio,
söderhavstärna,
Polynesiaterne,
rybár sivochrbtý,
rybák tichomořský,
Polynesisk Terne,
oseaniantiira,
xatrac de Peale,
rybitwa pacyficzna,
Polinēzijas zīriņš,
Очковая крачка,
Dara-laut fiji,
ナンヨウマミジロアジサシ,
灰背燕鸥,
灰背燕鷗,

Voice song and cries

play
pause

Habitat

Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs, mountain peaks) : ; Marine Neritic : Pelagic, Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs, Subtidal Loose Rock/pebble/gravel, Subtidal Sandy, Subtidal Sandy-Mud, Macroalgal/Kelp, Seagrass (Submerged) ; Marine Intertidal : Rocky Shoreline, Sandy Shoreline and/or Beaches, Sand Bars, Spits, Etc, Shingle and/or Pebble Shoreline and/or Beaches, Tidepools ; Marine Coastal/Supratidal : Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands

Geographic range

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status

Extinct

Threatened

Least
concern

Extinc
in the Wild

Near
threatened

Not
evaluated

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Other sources of interest