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Thalasseus bernsteini (Chinese Crested Tern)

Synonyms: Sterna bernsteini; Sterna zimmermanni

Wikipedia Abstract

The Chinese crested tern (Thalasseus bernsteini) is a seabird of the tern family, Sternidae, closely related to the Sandwich tern, T. sandvicensis, and the lesser crested tern, T. bengalensis. It is most similar to the former, differing only in the bill pattern, which is the reverse of the Sandwich tern's, being yellow with a black tip. From the lesser crested tern, which it overlaps in wintering distribution, it can be told by the white rump and paler grey mantle, as well as the black tip to the bill, which seen from up close also has a white point. The larger greater crested tern is also similar, differing in its stouter, all-yellow bill and darker grey mantle and rump, as well as in size.
View Wikipedia Record: Thalasseus bernsteini

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Thalasseus bernsteini

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
58
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 4.64431
EDGE Score: 4.50324

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  284 grams
Diet [2]  Piscivore
Diet - Fish [2]  100 %
Forages - Underwater [2]  100 %
Incubation [3]  25 days
Migration [4]  Intracontinental
Top 100 Endangered [5]  Yes

Ecoregions

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Bako-Buntal Bay Malaysia A1, A3, A4i  
Chongming Dongtan Nature Reserve China (mainland) A1, A4i, A4iii
Manila Bay Philippines A1, A4i, A4iii
Matsu (Mazu) Islands Tern Refuge Taiwan A1, A4i

Prey / Diet

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Shaw, T. (1938) The avifauna of Tsingtao and neighbouring districts. Bull. Fan Mem. Inst. Biol. Zool. Ser. 8: 133–222
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
3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
4Myers, 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
5Baillie, J.E.M. & Butcher, E. R. (2012) Priceless or Worthless? The world’s most threatened species. Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom.
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.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
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