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Onychoprion anaethetus (Bridled Tern)

Synonyms: Onychoprion anaethetus checklist; Sterna anaethetus
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The bridled tern (Onychoprion anaethetus, formerly Sterna anaethetus is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus is onux, "claw", and "prion", nail. The specific anaethetus means "senseless, stupid".
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Infraspecies

Onychoprion anaethetus anaethetus
Onychoprion anaethetus antarctica
Onychoprion anaethetus antarcticus
Onychoprion anaethetus fuligulus
Onychoprion anaethetus melanopterus
Onychoprion anaethetus nelsoni
Onychoprion anaethetus recognitus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.37291
EDGE Score: 1.85206
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  136 grams
Birth Weight [3]  20 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Oceanic islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Tropical Oceans
Wintering Habitat [2]  Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  30 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  80 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  59 days
Incubation [5]  30 days
Mating Display [3]  Non-acrobatic aerial display
Mating System [3]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [5]  18 years
Migration [6]  Intercontinental
Wing Span [5]  31 inches (.78 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ashmore Reef Commonwealth Marine Reserve 144062 Australia      

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Saemundssonia lockleyi[8]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 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
♦ 5del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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.
♦ 8Species 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