White tern
(Gygis alba)[]
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| Species ID:
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2-10-87-1813-19160
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Chordata
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| Class:
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Aves
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| Order:
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Charadriiformes
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| Family:
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Laridae
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| Genus:
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Gygis
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| Conservation status:
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LC - Least Concern
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| Systems:
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Marine / Terrestrial
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| Links:
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IUCN Red List
Wikipedia
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Subspecies[]
- G. a. alba (tropical islands of the south Atlantic)
- G. a. candida (Seychelles & Mascarene Islands to central Pacific)
- G. a. microrhyncha (Phoeonix, Line and Marquesas Islands)
- G. a. leucopes (Pitcairn Islands)
Other names[]
- Fairy tern
- Angel tern
- White noddy
- Manu-o-Kū
Diet[]
- Small fish
- Squid
- Crustaceans
Biomes[]
- Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
- Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
- Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests
- Tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands
- Deserts and xeric shrublands
Locations[]
Ecozones[]
- Australasia
- Afrotropic
- Indomalaya
- Neotropic
- Oceania
Ecoregions[]
- AA0109 Lord Howe Island subtropical forests
- AA0114 Norfolk Island subtropical forests
- AA0402 Eastern Australian temperate forests
- AA0409 Southeast Australia temperate forests
- AT0113 Granitic Seychelles forests
- AT0703 Ascension scrub and grasslands
- AT1301 Aldabra Island xeric scrub
- IM0110 Christmas and Cocos Islands tropical forests
- IM0125 Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
- NT0116 Cocos Island moist forests
- NT0172 Trindade-Martin Vaz Islands tropical forests
- NT0216 Islas Revillagigedo dry forests
- NT0705 Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands
- OC0101 Carolines tropical moist forests
- OC0102 Central Polynesian tropical moist forests
- OC0103 Cook Islands tropical moist forests
- OC0104 Eastern Micronesia tropical moist forests
- OC0105 Fiji tropical moist forests
- OC0106 Hawaii tropical moist forests
- OC0108 Marquesas tropical moist forests
- OC0110 Palau tropical moist forests
- OC0112 Samoan tropical moist forests
- OC0113 Society Islands tropical moist forests
- OC0114 Tongan tropical moist forests
- OC0115 Tuamotu tropical moist forests
- OC0116 Tubuai tropical moist forests
- OC0117 Western Polynesian tropical moist forests
- OC0201 Fiji tropical dry forests
- OC0202 Hawaii tropical dry forests
- OC0203 Marianas tropical dry forests
- OC0204 Yap tropical dry forests
- OC0702 Hawaii tropical low shrublands
- OC0703 Northwestern Hawaii scrub
