Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Laridae. The genus used to encompass most "white" terns indiscriminately, but mtDNA sequence comparisons...
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Arctic tern (redirect from Sterna paradisaea)
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic...
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Šterna (Italian: Sterna) is a village in the municipality of Grožnjan-Grisignana in Istria, Croatia. According to the 2021 census, its population was...
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Common tern (redirect from Sterna hirundo)
The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate...
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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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Sooty tern (redirect from Sterna fuscata)
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...
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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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Sterna (Greek: Στέρνα, before 1927: Σολομίστι – Solomisti), is a village in Kozani Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. It is part of the community of Velanidia...
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Roseate tern (redirect from Sterna dougallii)
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...
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Royal tern (redirect from Sterna maxima)
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...
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