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Sandwich Tern

Birds

The Sandwich tern is a tern in the family Laridae, closely related to the lesser crested tern, Chinese crested tern, Cabot's tern and elegant tern, with which it has been known to interbreed. It breeds across the Palearctic from Europe to the Caspian Sea and winters in the Mediterranean and along the coasts of Africa, India and Sri Lanka. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Diet
Piscivore 1
System (Realm)
Marine 1
Living or Extinct
Yes 2
Comparison
NatureServe Rank
G5 Secure 3
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 4
Scientific Name
Thalasseus sandvicensis 2
Conservation Status
Least Concern 1
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Laridae, Taxa
Source Sandwich Tern (Wikidata)

In Biome

Marine, Biomes
Source Sandwich Tern (Wikidata)

In Ecosystem

Caspian Sea, Ecosystems
Source Sandwich tern (Wikipedia)
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Found In

Africa

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Belgium

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Colombia

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Denmark

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Ecuador

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North America

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Norway

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South America

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Spain

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Sweden

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Venezuela

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Sources
1. Sandwich tern (Wikipedia)
  • Introduction
    It breeds in the Palearctic from Europe to the Caspian Sea, and winters in the Mediterranean and on the coasts of Africa, India, and Sri Lanka.
  • Lead
    Like all Thalasseus terns, the Sandwich tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, usually in marine environments, and the offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
  • Infobox: status
    LC
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2. Sandwich Tern (Wikidata)
Wikidata
  • Wikidata Q27547 (P225 taxon name)
  • Statements section, conservation status (P141)
    IUCN Red List conservation status (Wikidata property P141): least concern.
  • Child Taxon Of: Laridae, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chain
  • In Biome: Marine, Introduction
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3. NatureServe Explorer: Thalasseus sandvicensis
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)
Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "G5"
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4. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Aves
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 32
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 32
"cites_listing":"I/II/III/NC","eu_listing":"A/B/C/D/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":"Chordata","class":"Aves","order":null,"family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[{"name":"Aves","language":"ES"},{"name":"Birds","language":"EN"},{"name":"Oiseaux","language":"FR"},{"name":"鸟纲","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]
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UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Laridae
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 480
Quote, Species+ taxon_concepts, id 480
"cites_listing":"I/NC","eu_listing":"A/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Animalia","phylum":"Chordata","class":"Aves","order":"Charadriiformes","family":"Laridae"},"synonyms":[{"id":35007,"full_name":"Gelochelidon nilotica","author_year":"(Gmelin, 1789)","rank":"SPECIES"},{"id":33900,"full_name":"Hydroprogne tschegrava","author_year":"(Lepechin, 1770)","rank":"SPECIES"}],"common_names":[{"name":"Mouette Relique","language":"FR"},{"name":"Gull","language":"EN"},{"name":"Gaviotas, Charranges","language":"ES"},{"name":"鸥科","language":"ZH"}],"cites_listings":[]
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