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Onychoprion fuscatus (Sooty Tern)

Synonyms: Onychoprion fuscata fuscata; Onychoprion fuscatus checklist; Sterna fuscata
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) (formerly Sterna fuscata), is a seabird of the tern family, (Sternidae). The genus name is from Ancient Greek onux, "claw", and "prion", nail. The specific fuscatus is Latin for "dark".
View Wikipedia Record: Onychoprion fuscatus

Infraspecies

Onychoprion fuscatus crissalis
Onychoprion fuscatus fuscatus
Onychoprion fuscatus infuscatus
Onychoprion fuscatus kermadeci
Onychoprion fuscatus luctuosus
Onychoprion fuscatus nubilosus
Onychoprion fuscatus oahuensis
Onychoprion fuscatus serratus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
20
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 6.64492
EDGE Score: 2.03404
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  189 grams
Birth Weight [3]  23 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Coastal marine, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Tropical Oceans
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  20 %
Diet - Scavenger [4]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  70 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  30 %
Clutch Size [6]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  57 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  47,000,000
Incubation [3]  28 days
Maximum Longevity [3]  36 years
Migration [7]  Intercontinental
Wing Span [6]  35 inches (.9 m)
Female Maturity [3]  4 years
Male Maturity [3]  4 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Abrolhos Marine National Park 225607 Bahia, Brazil      
Ashmore Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve 144062 Australia      
Ilhéu da Praia - Ilha Graciosa 30 Portugal      
Ilhéu da Vila e Costa Adjacente - Ilha de Stª. Maria 119 Portugal    

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Emblem of

Lakshadweep

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Fregata aquila (Ascension Frigatebird)[10]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Galactosomum renincola[11]
Quadraceps birostris[12]

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
♦ 6Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 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
♦ 8Jorrit 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.
♦ 9Comparative foraging ecology and ecological niche of a superabundant tropical seabird: the sooty tern Sterna fuscata in the southwest Indian Ocean, S. Jaquemet, M. Potier, Y. Cherel, J. Kojadinovic, P. Bustamante, P. Richard, T. Catry, J. A. Ramos, M. Le Corre, Mar Biol (2008) 155:505–520
♦ 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.
♦ 11Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 12Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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