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Species
Least Concernsnowy-crowned tern
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyLaridae
Habitatmarine
Chile Central
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Sterna trudeaui
- Commons category
- Sterna trudeaui
- wingspan
- 77
- litter size
- 3
- taxon range
- South America
- short name
- S. trudeaui
- taxon common name
- andorinha-do-mar-de-coroa-branca
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Encyclopedic overview
The snowy-crowned tern (Sterna trudeaui), also known as Trudeau's tern, is a species of bird in subfamily Sterninae of the family Laridae, the gulls, terns, and skimmers. It is native to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and possibly Paraguay, and also vagrant in Peru and the Falkland Islands.
Taxonomy and systematics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Snowy-crowned Tern” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.