Seen at sea near floating sea weed, too far to see the Miami coastline. The sea was a beautiful dark blue.
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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Aperture Value
f/5.6
Color Space
Uncalibrated
Exposure Bias Value
0.33 EV
Exposure Program
Aperture Priority
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
600 mm
ISO
500
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/2500 sec
Date/Time
Sun 23 Aug 2015 10:26:47 AM EDT
English Sooty Tern
Scientific (Onychoprion fuscatus fuscatus)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Laridae
Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Other name(s) Sterne fuligineuse
Breeding Regions TrO
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map American Samoa,Anguilla,Australia,Bahamas,Barbados,Belize,Benin,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Cameroon, Canada,Cape Verde,Chile,China,Colombia,Congo,Cook Islands,Cuba,Denmark,Djibouti, Dominican Republic,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,French Guiana,French Polynesia,Ghana,Guam,Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Ivory Coast,Jamaica,Japan, Kenya,Kiribati,Liberia,Madagascar,Malaysia,Maldives,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Mauritius,Mexico, Micronesia,Mozambique,Myanmar,Nauru,Netherlands Antilles,New Caledonia,Nicaragua,Nigeria,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway, Oman,Palau,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Peru,Philippines,Pitcairn Islands,Puerto Rico,Reunion,Saint Helena, Saint Lucia,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Solomon Islands,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan, Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Taiwan,Tanzania,Thailand,Tokelau,Tonga,Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia,Turks and Caicos Islands,Tuvalu,United States - Hawaii,United States - mainland,Vanuatu,Venezuela,Vietnam,Virgin Islands,Yemen, Zimbabwe,
IOC 9.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
fuscatus Gulf of Mexico and West Indies, Gulf of Guinea and s Atlantic
nubilosus Red Sea and Indian Ocean to Ryukyu Is., Philippines and Greater Sundas
serratus w, n Australia and New Guinea through Lord Howe, Norfolk and Kermadec Is. and the s Pacific to Easter I.
oahuensis Bonin Is. (Japan) to the Hawaiian Is. s to Kiritimati (Line Is.)
crissalis islands off w Mexico to the Galápagos
luctuosus Juan Fernández Is. (Chile)
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Linnaeus, 1766)
German Rußseeschwalbe
French Sterne fuligineuse
Chinese 乌燕鸥
Japanese セグロアジサシ
Russian Тёмная крачка
Spanish Charrán sombrío
Portuguese trinta-réis-das-rocas / gaivina-de-dorso-preto
Bird Data App text
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)