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Onychoprion aleuticus (Aleutian Tern)

Synonyms: Onychoprion aleuticus checklist; Sterna aleutica; Sterna camtschatica

Wikipedia Abstract

The Aleutian tern (Onychoprion aleuticus, formerly Sterna aleutica) is a seabird of the tern family, Sternidae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek onux, "claw", and "prion", nail. The specific aleuticus refers to the Aleutian Islands. This species breeds in colonies on coasts and islands in Alaska and easternmost Siberia. It is strongly migratory, wintering off Indonesia and Malaysia. Large numbers appear off China during passage periods. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe, with just one record, on the Farne Islands off Northumberland, England on 28–29 May 1979.
View Wikipedia Record: Onychoprion aleuticus

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Onychoprion aleuticus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
22
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.81709
EDGE Score: 2.17669
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  112 grams
Birth Weight [3]  19.6 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries
Wintering Geography [2]  Paleotropics
Wintering Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Coastal marine
Diet [4]  Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  100 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  2
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  22,000
Incubation [1]  24 days
Migration [6]  Intercontinental
Wing Span [1]  30 inches (.77 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Komandorsk Biosphere Reserve 9016082 Kamchatka Krai , Russia    
Kronotsky Biosphere Reserve 2822275 Kamchatka Krai , Russia
Poronaisky State Nature Reserve 140096 Sakhalin, Russia

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Blacksand Spit USA A4i
Shantar islands Russia (Asian) A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Capillaria contorta[8]
Diplostomum huronense[8]
Diplostomum repandum[8]
Diplostomum rutili[8]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 6Myers, 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
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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