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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Shore Birds Terns Black Tern Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)   Range: NA, EU (range map) info Photo by Ryan Shaw  Beth Lake Okanogan County, Washington State, USA  Sizes: 800x513 1152x738 1200x769 histogram Full size: 1200x769 next (Black Tern) last first previous  (Black Tern) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Photo Properties summary  details Make Canon Model Canon EOS 50D Aperture Value f/6.3 Color Space sRGB Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Exposure Program Aperture Priority Flash No Flash Focal Length 700 mm ISO 400 Metering Mode Multi-Segment Shutter Speed Value 1/250 sec Date/Time Sun 06 Jun 2010 11:43:52 AM EDT Additional Information English Black Tern Scientific (Chlidonias niger) Order CHARADRIIFORMES Family (Latin) Laridae Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Other name(s) Guifette noire Breeding Regions NA, EU Breeding Range Subregions widespread Nonbreeding Range Subregions Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Belarus, Belgium,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Botswana,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burkina Faso,Burundi, Cameroon,Canada,Chad,China,Colombia,Congo,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia, Ethiopia,Finland,France,French Guiana,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar, Greece,Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hungary,India - mainland,Iran, Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Jamaica,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya, Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia,Madagascar, Mali,Malta,Mauritania,Mexico,Moldova,Mongolia,Montenegro,Morocco,Namibia,Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Niger,Nigeria,Norway,Panama,Peru,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico, Romania,Russia,Rwanda,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone,Slovakia,Slovenia,Somalia, South Africa,Spain,Sri Lanka,Suriname,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Togo, Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Kingdom,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Uzbekistan, Venezuela,Western Sahara,Yemen, IOC 11.2 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range niger Europe to c Asia surinamensis Canada and n USA IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet) Described by (Linnaeus, 1758) German Trauerseeschwalbe French Guifette noire Chinese 黑浮鸥 Japanese ハシグロクロハラアジサシ Russian Чёрная крачка Spanish Fumarel común Portuguese trinta-réis-negro / gaivina-preta 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 (Black Tern) last first previous  (Black Tern)