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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Shore Birds Terns Little Tern Little Tern (Sternula albifrons)   Range: AF, EU, OR, AU (range map) info Photo by Graham Searll    - Western Cape, South Africa  Sizes: 800x567 1152x817 1444x1024 histogram Full size: 1444x1024 next (Little Tern) last first previous  (Least Tern) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Photo Properties summary  details Make NIKON CORPORATION Model NIKON D2Xs Aperture Value f/5 Color Space sRGB Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Exposure Program Manual Flash No Flash Focal Length 500 mm ISO 13107200 Metering Mode Center Weighted Average Shutter Speed Value 1/1000 sec Date/Time Tue 31 Oct 2006 12:21:52 PM EST Additional Information English Little Tern Scientific (Sternula albifrons) Order CHARADRIIFORMES Family (Latin) Laridae Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Other name(s) Sterne naine Breeding Range AF, EU, OR, AU Nonbreeding Range Subregions widespread Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain,Belarus, Belgium,Benin,Bhutan,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Chad, China,Comoros,Congo,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Egypt, Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Faroe Islands,Finland,France,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia, Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guam,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hong Kong,Hungary,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India - mainland,Indonesia,Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan, Kazakhstan,Kenya,Kiribati,Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Laos,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya, Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Malta,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Mauritius, Micronesia,Moldova,Monaco,Mongolia,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands, New Caledonia,Niger,Nigeria,North Korea,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palau,Palestine, Papua New Guinea,Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia, Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Solomon Islands,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan,Spain, Sri Lanka,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania,Thailand,Togo, Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom,Uzbekistan,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen, IOC 9.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range albifrons Europe and n Africa to c Asia, guineae Mauritania to Gabon sinensis India and the Indian Ocean through e and se Asia to Australia IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet) Described by (Pallas, 1764) German Zwergseeschwalbe French Sterne naine Chinese 白额燕鸥 Japanese コアジサシ Russian Малая крачка Spanish Charrancito común Portuguese chilreta 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) next (Little Tern) last first previous  (Least Tern)