Fairy Tern

分类位置

同属物种

Damara Tern

Damara Tern

小白额燕鸥

Least Tern

白额燕鸥

Little Tern

Peruvian Tern

Peruvian Tern

Saunders's Tern

Saunders's Tern

Yellow-billed Tern

Yellow-billed Tern

形态与习性

The fairy tern (Sternula nereis) is a small tern which is native to the southwestern Pacific. It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN and the New Zealand subspecies is critically endangered. Fairy terns live in colonies along the coastlines and estuaries of Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, feeding largely on small, epipelagic schooling fishes, breeding in areas close to their feeding sites. They have a monogamous mating system, forming breeding pairs in which they mate, nest, and care f