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English Roseate Tern
Scientific (Sterna dougallii)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Laridae
Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Other name(s) Sterne de Dougall
Regions Worldwide
Breeding Range Subregions widespread coasts
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA) map Somalia,Guinea,Seychelles,Guyana,Mozambique,Ethiopia,South Africa,Portugal,Nigeria,Netherlands Antilles,Japan,Tunisia,Maldives,Mali,Virgin Islands,Jamaica,United Kingdom,Madagascar,India - mainland,Belize,Namibia,Algeria,Bahamas,Taiwan,Thailand,Singapore,Netherlands,Vietnam,French Guiana,Haiti,France,Malaysia,Cambodia,Libya,Benin,Puerto Rico,Trinidad and Tobago,Sri Lanka,China,Sierra Leone,Western Sahara,Eritrea,Angola,Ivory Coast,Saudi Arabia,Guinea-Bissau,Oman,Honduras,Ireland,Philippines,Ghana,Mexico,Solomon Islands,Poland,Togo,Spain,Kenya,Egypt,Australia,Switzerland,Norway,Canada,Dominican Republic,Papua New Guinea,Mauritania,Tanzania,Austria,Cape Verde,Yemen,Gambia,Liberia,Myanmar,Venezuela,New Caledonia,Denmark,Senegal,British Virgin Islands,United States - mainland,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
dougallii e North America, West Indies, Azores, Europe and Africa
arideensis Seychelles to Madagascar and Rodrigues I.
korustes Sri Lanka, Andaman Is. and Mergui Arch. (sw Myanmar)
bangsi Ryukyu Is. and e China to New Guinea, ne Australia and islands of the sw Pacific
gracilis Moluccas and Australia
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Montagu, 1813
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German Rosenseeschwalbe
French Sterne de Dougall
Chinese 粉红燕鸥
Japanese ベニアジサシ
Russian Розовая крачка
Spanish Charrán rosado
Portuguese trinta-réis-róseo / gaivina-rosada
Bird Data app text A typical tern with a long tail. Overall very white with roseate color on belly virtually impossible to see, or not present at all.
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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)