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EDITOR: An all white tern sometimes split into different species.
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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 20D
Aperture Value
f/11
Color Space
Uncalibrated
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Program Action
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
40 mm
ISO
400
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/1000 sec
Date/Time
Wed 12 Oct 2005 04:25:45 PM EDT
English White Tern
Scientific (Gygis alba)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Laridae
Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Other name(s) Fairy Tern, Angel Tern, Common White Tern, Gygis blanche, White Tem, Common White-Tern
Breeding Regions TrO
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map American Samoa,Australia,Brazil,Chile,China,Colombia,Comoros,Cook Islands,Ecuador - mainland,French Polynesia, Guam,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Indonesia,Japan,Kiribati,Macao,Madagascar,Maldives,Marshall Islands, Mauritius,Micronesia,Nauru,New Caledonia,Niue,Northern Mariana Islands,Palau,Papua New Guinea,Pitcairn Islands,Saint Helena, Samoa,Seychelles,Solomon Islands,South Africa,Tokelau,Tonga,Trinidad and Tobago,Tuvalu,United States - Hawaii,Vanuatu, Vietnam,
IOC 9.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
alba islands of the tropical South Atlantic Ocean
candida Seychelles and Mascarene Is. to the c Pacific (except ranges of next two ssp.)
microrhyncha Phoenix, Line and Marquesas Is.
leucopes Pitcairn Is.
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Sparrman, 1786)
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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)