This species ranges in tropical and subtropical areas of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean. In the western Indian Ocean it breeds on the Aldabra and Amirante Islands,
Seychelles, Chagos Islands (
British Indian Ocean Territory) and the
Maldives and can be found on the eastern African coast. Its range in the eastern Indian Ocean and Pacific ecompasses the Andaman Islands,
India, east to southern
Japan and
China, south through
Indonesia,
Malaysia, the
Philippenes and
New Guinea to north-east
Australia and some islands in the western-central Pacific (del Hoyo
et al. 1996)
.
Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012.
Sterna sumatrana. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <
www.iucnredlist.org>
