Onychoprion fuscatus (Linnaeus, 1766)

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 35

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11646065
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Onychoprion fuscatus
status

Treatment

**SOOTY TERN Onychoprion fuscatus View in CoL

Status Occasional visitor. Scarce in waters off northern New Guinea (see Bishop & Hacking 2020). In Biak waters: 4 July 2019, at least 15 (adults and first-summer birds) halfway between Biak and Numfor and ten next day during the return journey (D. Lopez-Velasco in litt. 2021).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Aves
Order	Charadriiformes
Family	Laridae
Genus	Onychoprion

Specimens

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