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Species |
Family |
Scientific name |
Breeding Regions |
Breeding Subregions |
Nonbreeding Subregions |
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Cabot's Tern i | Laridae | Thalasseus acuflavidus | NA, MA, SA | coastal Virginia to s Texas, Caribbean, French Guiana, e Brazil and Argentina | Pacific coast from Mexico to Ecuador; Atlantic coast from Florida to Uruguay |
Chinese Crested Tern (CR) i | Laridae | Thalasseus bernsteini | PAL | islands off Zhejiang and Fujian (e China coast) | Philippines, Borneo, Halmahera (n Moluccas) and Seram (ec Moluccas; few records anywhere) |
Elegant Tern (NT) i | Laridae | Thalasseus elegans | NA, MA | coastal e Pacific of sw California and Baja California and Gulf of California (nw Mexico) | to coastal e Pacific from n California to c Chile |
Greater Crested Tern i | Laridae | Thalasseus bergii | AU, OR, AF | coasts of sw Africa, North Indian Ocean and marginal seas, through Indonesian and Australian waters from far s Japan to e Polynesia | |
Lesser Crested Tern i U | Laridae | Thalasseus bengalensis | AF, OR, AU | disjunctly, coasts of sc Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and marginal seas, and n Australia | to subtropical and tropical Old World waters from nw Africa to New Guinea |
Royal Tern i | Laridae | Thalasseus maximus | NA, MA, SA | coastal w North Atlantic from Virginia to Florida, Gulf of Mexico to s Texas, Campeche Bank (ne Mexico), off n Honduras, through West Indies and off n Venezuela to French Guiana; s California, n Gulf of California to Sinaloa and Is. Tres Marias (off wc Me | |
Sandwich Tern i | Laridae | Thalasseus sandvicensis | PAL, AF | coastal nw to se Europe from British Isles and Baltic Sea to e Iberian Pen., Mediterranean, Black and e, s Caspian seas | coastal sw Europe and Mediterranean to n, w, s Africa, Persian Gulf, India and Sri Lanka |
West African Crested Tern i | Laridae | Thalasseus albididorsalis | AF | coasts of Mauritania to Guinea (w Africa) | to coasts of Morocco in n and s to Namibia |
62% 5 species of 8 (0 extinct).
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IUCN Status Codes |
EX | Extinct |
EW | Extinct in the wild |
CR | Critically Endangered |
EN | Endangered |
VU | Vulnerable |
NT | Near Threatened |
LC | Least Concern |
DD | Data deficient |
NE | Not evaluated |
LC not shown.
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Breeding Range Codes |
AF | Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara) |
AN | Antarctica |
AO | Atlantic Ocean |
AU | Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu) |
PAL | Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan) |
IO | Indian Ocean |
LA | Latin America (Middle and South America) |
MA | Middle America (Mexico through Panama) |
NA | North America (includes the Caribbean) |
NO | Northern oceans |
OR | Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas) |
PO | Pacific Ocean |
SA | South America |
SO | Southern oceans |
TO | Temperate oceans |
TrO | Tropical oceans |
Worldwide | Worldwide |
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