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Thalasseus sandvicensis (Sandwich Tern)

Synonyms: Sterna boysii; Sterna cantiaca; Sterna sandvicensis (homotypic); Sterna sandvicensis sandvicensis (homotypic); Thalasseus sandvicensis checklist
Language: Spanish

Infraspecies

Thalasseus sandvicensis eurygnathus
Thalasseus sandvicensis sandvicensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
8
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.73047
EDGE Score: 1.31653
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  229 grams
Birth Weight [3]  28 grams
Female Weight [5]  237 grams
Male Weight [5]  296 grams
Weight Dimorphism [5]  24.9 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Coastal marine
Wintering Geography [2]  Widespread Coastal
Wintering Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Coastal marine
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  90 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  10 %
Forages - Ground [4]  10 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  70 %
Clutch Size [3]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [5]  32 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  380,000
Incubation [3]  22 days
Mating Display [6]  Ground and non-acrobatic aerial display
Maximum Longevity [3]  31 years
Migration [7]  Intercontinental
Speed [8]  31.988 MPH (14.3 m/s)
Wing Span [8]  39 inches (1 m)
Female Maturity [3]  3 years
Male Maturity [3]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Deropristis inflata[9]

Consumers

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
♦ 6Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 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
♦ 8OPTIMISATION OF THE FLIGHT SPEED OF THE LITTLE, COMMON AND SANDWICH TERN, JAMES M. WAKELING AND JENNIFER HODGSON, J. exp. Biol. 169, 261-266 (1992)
♦ 9Jorrit 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.
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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
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