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Common White-Tern (Gygis alba)

Common White-Tern (Gygis alba)

Fairy Tern (Sterna nereis)


Class: Aves
Family: Laridae
Common Name: Common White-Tern
Genus: Gygis
Species Name: alba

About The Common White-Tern

The Common White Tern has a distribution across the tropics of the world, being found year-round on islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the western and central Pacific. It is also a seasonal visitor to islands in the south-central and eastern Pacific off the coast of Mexico1.

Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012. Gygis alba. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <www.iucnredlist.org>

Trips Where Observed

French Polynesia

Member Lifelists

Australasia
World

Sites Where Observed

Location
Date
Notes
7/15/2010

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