Aleutian Tern
Onychoprion aleuticus(Baird, SF, 1869)
English (US) Aleutian Tern
The Aleutian Tern (Onychoprion aleuticus) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Laridae (Skimmers, Noddies, Terns, and Gulls) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds North Pacific coasts from Sakhalin, Sea of Okhotsk, and Kamchatka (eastern Russia) eastward through Aleutian Islands and to southwestern Alaska; winters coastal Thailand and Philippines eastward to New Guinea and east-central Australia; migrates along w North Pacific coast via Japan southward toTaiwanRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Onychoprion aleuticus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Vulnerable
- English (US)
- Aleutian Tern
- Described by
- (Baird, SF, 1869)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Sterna aleutica
- Described by
- (Baird, SF, 1869)
- Type locality
- Kodiak Island, Alaska.
- Original description
- Transactions of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 1 p.321 pl.31 fig.1
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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