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Sternula nereis (Fairy Tern)

Synonyms: Sterna nereis

Wikipedia Abstract

The fairy tern (Sternula nereis) is a small tern which is native to the southwestern Pacific. It is listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN and the New Zealand subspecies is "Critically Endangered". There are three subspecies: \n* Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis (Gould, 1843) – breeds in Australia \n* New Caledonian fairy tern, Sternula nereis exsul (Mathews, 1912) – breeds in New Caledonia \n* New Zealand fairy tern, Sternula nereis davisae (Mathews & Iredale, 1913) – breeds in northern New Zealand
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Infraspecies

Sternula nereis davisae (New Zealand fairy tern) (Attributes)
Sternula nereis exsul
Sternula nereis horni
Sternula nereis nereis

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Sternula nereis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
37
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.76266
EDGE Score: 3.13769
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  72 grams
Birth Weight [2]  10.2 grams
Diet [3]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fish [3]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [3]  10 %
Diet - Plants [3]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [3]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [3]  80 %
Clutch Size [2]  2
Incubation [4]  22 days
Mating Display [2]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Maximum Longevity [1]  17 years
Migration [5]  Intracontinental
Wing Span [4]  19 inches (.48 m)

Ecoregions

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Îlots du Nord-Ouest New Caledonia (to France) A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Caledonia New Caledonia No
New Zealand New Zealand No
Southwest Australia Australia No

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Saemundssonia melanocephalus[7]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Hamish 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
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Myers, 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
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
♦ 7Species 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