Arctic Tern
Sterna paradisaeaPontoppidan, E, 1763
English (US) Arctic Tern
The Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) 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 circumpolarly, Arctic coasts and inland, from Greenland, Iceland, and British Isles eastward to Kamchatka (eastern Russia), through Aleutian Islands, Alaska mainland through Arctic and subarctic Canada to southeastern Canada; winters subantarctic and Antarctic Ocean to edge of pack-iceRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Sterna paradisaea
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Arctic Tern
- Described by
- Pontoppidan, E, 1763
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Sterna Paradisaea
- Described by
- Pontoppidan, E, 1763
- Type locality
- No type locality = Christiansoe, Denmark, ex Brünnich, Orn. Boreal., 1764, p. 46.
- Original description
- Den Danske Atlas eller Konge-Riget Dannemark (etc.) 1 p.622
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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