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Sternula superciliaris (Yellow-billed Tern)

Synonyms: Sterna superciliaris; Sternula superciliaris checklist

Wikipedia Abstract

The yellow-billed tern (Sternula superciliaris) is a species of tern in the family Sternidae.It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, and freshwater lakes.
View Wikipedia Record: Sternula superciliaris

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
15
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.80801
EDGE Score: 1.75924
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  46 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  100 %
Clutch Size [3]  2

Ecoregions

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Amana French Guiana A2, A4i, A4iii  
Littoral French Guiana A2, A4i, A4iii    
Plaine Kaw et Pointe Béhague French Guiana A2, A4i, A4iii  
Reserva Nacional Pacaya Samiria Peru A1, A2, A3, A4i

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Atlantic Forest Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay No
Cerrado Brazil No

Prey / Diet

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1ffrench, R. 1991. A guide to the birds of Trinidad and Tobago. 2nd ed. Cornell University Press. New York. 426 pp.
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
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