Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Terns

CHARADRIIFORMES

--Sternidae

Sterna elegans
Sandy coasts.
Pacific coast from s Calif. in San Diego Bay, s to c Baja Calif. at Scammon Lagoon and I. San Roque; Raza, Trinidad and George islands in the Gulf of Calif.; s along Mexican coast to Nayarit.
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-elegans L. elegans (bello)
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Sterna dougallii
Sandy and grassy seacoasts and islands.
Locally in British Isles, Denmark and nw,s France; Azores, Madeira and Canary islands; coasts from Red Sea and Arabia s to s S. Africa, (breeding records in Senegambia, Somalia, Kenya, S. Africa and Madagascar).
Sri Lanka; Andaman Is. and coastal Malay Peninsula; se China in Fukien and n Kwantung; Taiwan and Lan Yü Is.; Greater Sunda Is., Indonesia;
cw Philippines on the Calamian Is. and Palawan. Locally from Maine and Nova Scotia s to Florida, W. Indies, Bermuda and is. off n Venezuela from Netherlands Antilles to Los Roques; islands off n Honduras.
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dougallii Peter McDougall (1777-1814) fisico e collezionista
(raccoglitore di reperti) scozzese
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Sterna hirundo
From British Isles, n Europe, n Russia, nc Siberia, Mongolia and n China,
s to the Azores, Canary Is. and Madeira; Tunisia, Libya (breeding records in Mauritania, Senegambia, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon); Mediterranean Sea, Turkey, Near East, Iraq, Iran, Middle East, probably Pakistan, and Tibet. From n Alberta, sc Mackenzie, n Saskatchewan, nw,c Mackenzie, and from c Ontario e to Labrador and Newfoundland, s to e Washington, ne Montana, ne S. Dakota, c Minnesota, and from n Illinois e across n U.S.
to New England, and s along Atlantic coast to S. Carolina; locally on Gulf coast from Texas to w Florida; Bermuda; Greater Antilles; Dominica in the Lesser Antilles, and Netherlands Antilles off n Venezuela.
Widespread winter and vagrant records.
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-hirundo L.hirundo (una rondine)
-[coda a rondine]
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Sterna elegans

Elegans Tern

Rare

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Sterna dougalli

Roseate Tern

Rare

Uncommon, local

has bred: Germany, Spagna

Is.Salvage, Tunisia

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Sterna hirundo

Common Tern

Locally common

has bred:Faeroes,Portugal

Is.Canary,Morocco,Algeria

Lybia,Cipro,Kwait

Race: longipennis

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Sterna paradisaea
Seacoasts, tundra, lakes, rivers.
From Iceland, Faroe Is., British Isles, Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Bear I., Franz Josef Land, n Europe w to France and s Scandinavia e across n Russia incl. Novaya Zemlya and n Siberia to Anadyrland, Koryakland and Commander Is. From n Alaska, n Yukon, n Mackenzie, Banks, Bathurst and n Ellesmere islands, Labrador and Newfoundland s to s Alaska incl. Aleutian Is., s Yukon, nw British Columbia, s Mackenzie, nw Saskatchewan, and from n Manitoba e across c,se Canada to New Brunswick and s along Atlantic coast to Massachusetts; Puget Sound in Washington State.
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-paradisaea Gr. paradeisos (paradiso, terra gioiosa)

        I marinai di Magellano avevano appreso [e tramandato] dai
         nativi di alcune isole che questo uccello provenisse dal cielo
        (paradiso).
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Sterna aleutica
Grassy flats, islets, lagoons, river mouths.
E Siberia in Sakhalin and Kamchatka; Alaska from Cape Krusenstern and Kotzebue Sound s to Aleutians w to Attu, and e to Alaska Peninsula and sc coast incl. Kodiak I.
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-aleutica Isole Aleutine, Alaska

Sterna forsteri
Marshes and sandy seacoasts.
From se British Columbia, c Alberta, c Saskatchewan, c Manitoba and s Ontario s to s Calif., w Nevada, sc Idaho, nc Utah, and from n,e Colorado e across c U.S. to nw Indiana and ec Michigan; Atlantic coast from s Massachusetts and s New York s locally to S. Carolina; Gulf coast from Louisiana s to n Tamaulipas.
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      -forsteri Johann Reinhold Forster (1729-1798) e Georg Forster
       (1754-1794) naturalisti a bordo della Resolution, (1772-1775)
       Cap.Cook .
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