Sternula albifrons

IOC Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Animalia • Phylum: Chordata • Subphylum: Vertebrata • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata • Superclassis: Tetrapoda • Cladus: Amniota • Cladus: Reptilia • Cladus: Archosauria • Classis: Aves • Superordo: Neognathae • Ordo: Charadriiformes • Familia: Sternidae • Genus: Sterna • Species: Sternula albifrons (Pallas, 1764)

Vernacular names

• English: Little Tern
• български: Белочела рибарка
• čeština: Rybák malý
• Deutsch: Zwergseeschwalbe
• suomi: Pikkutiira
• français: Sterne naine
• 日本語: コアジサシ (小鯵刺, Koajisashi)
• lietuvių: Mažoji žuvėdra
• Nederlands: Dwergstern
• polski: Rybitwa białoczelna
• slovenčina: Rybár malý
• svenska: Småtärna
• ไทย: นกนางนวลแกลบเล็ก
• 中文（繁體）: 小燕鷗

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Sternula albifrons

• IOC link: Sternula albifrons (Pallas, 1764) subcat
• IUCN: Sternula albifrons (Pallas, 1764) (old web site) (Least Concern)

Photos

S. a. albifrons

Europe, western Asia; wintering African coasts

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  Adult summer, Cádiz, Spain
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  Adult feeding chick, Cádiz, Spain
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  Adult feeding chicks, Cádiz, Spain
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  Adult in flight, Cádiz, Spain
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  Adult in flight, Cádiz, Spain
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  Juvenile, Cádiz, Spain
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  Juvenile, Cádiz, Spain
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  Adult moulting out of summer plumage, Cádiz, Spain
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  Adult moulting out of summer plumage, Cádiz, Spain
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  Adult in flight, Barcelona, Spain
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  Adult in flight, Barcelona, Spain
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  Adult in flight, Barcelona, Spain
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  Adult in flight, Barcelona, Spain
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  Adult in flight, Barcelona, Spain
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  France
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  Turkey
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  Sweden
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  ID composite, Britain

S. a. sinensis

Eastern Asia, Australia; wintering southeast Asia, northern Australia (syn. S. a. placens)

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  Kisosaki, Japan
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  Kisosaki, Japan
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  Tokyo, Japan
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  Tokyo, Japan
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  Tokyo, Japan
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  Tokyo, Japan
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  Taiwan
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  Taiwan
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  Taiwan
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  Tasmania, Australia
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  Tasmania, Australia
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  Winter plumage, with Thalasseus bergii; Queensland, Australia