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Gygis alba microrhyncha (Little White-tern)

Synonyms: Gygis microrhyncha

Wikipedia Abstract

The little white tern (Gygis alba microrhyncha), also known as the little fairy tern, is a subspecies of tern (family, Sternidae). It is sometimes considered a distinct species most closely related to the larger white tern. It is found in French Polynesia and Kiribati.
View Wikipedia Record: Gygis alba microrhyncha

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
3
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
21
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 7.63491
EDGE Score: 2.15581
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  100 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  80 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [2]  100 %
Wing Span [1]  31 inches (.78 m)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Central Polynesian tropical moist forests United States, Kiribati Oceania Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    
Marquesas tropical moist forests France Oceania Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests    
Western Polynesian tropical moist forests United States, Kiribati, New Zealand, Tuvalu Oceania Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States Yes

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 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
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