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Sterna dougallii (Roseate Tern)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The roseate tern (Sterna dougallii) is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. The genus name Sterna is derived from Old English "stearn", "tern", and the specific dougallii refers to Scottish physician and collector Dr Peter McDougall (1777–1814). "Roseate" refers to the bird's pink breast in breeding plumage.
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Infraspecies

Sterna dougallii arideensis
Sterna dougallii bangsi
Sterna dougallii dougallii
Sterna dougallii gracilis
Sterna dougallii korustes

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
11
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.3606
EDGE Score: 1.47261
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  123 grams
Birth Weight [3]  15 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Coastal marine
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread Oceans
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic, Coastal marine
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  90 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  10 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  29 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  160,000
Incubation [3]  23 days
Mating Display [6]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Maximum Longevity [3]  26 years
Migration [7]  Intercontinental
Wing Span [8]  30 inches (.76 m)
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Ammodytes americanus (inshore sand lance)[9]
Gonorynchus gonorynchus (Beaked salmon)[10]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Anous minutus (Black Noddy)1
Sula sula (Red-footed Booby)1

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8British Trust for Ornithology
♦ 9"Prey Delivered to Roseate and Common Tern Chicks; Composition and Temporal Variability (Entrega de Alimento a Polluelos de Sterna dougallii y S. hirundo: Composición y Variabilidad Temporal)", Carl Safina, Richard H. Wagner, David A. Witting and Kelly J. Smith, Journal of Field Ornithology Vol. 61, No. 3 (Summer, 1990), pp. 331-338
♦ 10del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0