Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Charadriiformes > Laridae > Sterna > Sterna vittataSterna vittata (Antarctic Tern)The Antarctic tern (Sterna vittata) is a typical tern. It ranges throughout the southern oceans. It is very similar in appearance to the closely related Arctic tern, but is stockier, and the wing tips are grey instead of blackish in flight. It is, of course, in breeding plumage in the southern summer, when the Arctic tern has moulted to its non-breeding plumage (though this is not useful for separating it from another species, the South American tern). The total global population of this bird is around 140,000 individuals. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 2.65802 EDGE Score: 1.29692 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 139 grams |  | | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore | | Diet - Fish [2] | 90 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | | Forages - Underwater [2] | 100 % | | | Clutch Size [4] | 2 | | Clutches / Year [4] | 1 | | Fledging [3] | 30 days | | Incubation [4] | 24 days | | Maximum Longevity [4] | 18 years | | Wing Span [4] | 30 inches (.76 m) |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
Use |
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Amsterdam and Saint-Paul Islands temperate grasslands |
France |
Afrotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra |
Australia, New Zealand |
Australasia |
Tundra |
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Ascension scrub and grasslands |
United Kingdom |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Knysna-Amatole montane forests |
South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Lowland fynbos and renosterveld |
South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Magellanic subpolar forests |
Chile, Argentina |
Neotropic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Montane fynbos and renosterveld |
South Africa |
Afrotropic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Rakiura Island temperate forests |
New Zealand |
Australasia |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Scotia Sea Islands tundra |
United Kingdom |
Antarctic |
Tundra |
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Southern Indian Ocean Islands tundra |
South Africa, France, Australia |
Antarctic |
Tundra |
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Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands |
United Kingdom |
Afrotropic |
Temperate Grasslands, Savannas, and Shrublands |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Algoa Bay Island Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Gough Island |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Île Saint Paul |
French Southern Territories |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Inaccessible Island |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Nightingale Island group |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Prince Edward Islands Special Nature Reserve |
South Africa |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Tristan da Cunha |
St Helena (to UK) |
A1, A2, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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New Zealand |
New Zealand |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Higgins, PJ and Davies, SJJF (Eds). (1996). Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds. Vol. 3, Snipe to Pigeons. Oxford University Press, Melbourne ♦ 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 ♦ 3Nathan 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 ♦ 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. ♦ 5Jorrit 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. ♦ 6DENSITIES OF ANTARCTIC SEABIRDS AT SEA AND THE PRESENCE OF THE KRILL EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA, BRYAN S. OBST, The Auk 102: 540-549. July 1985 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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