Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Laridae. The genus used to encompass most "white" terns indiscriminately, but mtDNA sequence comparisons...

The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic...

Šterna (Italian: Sterna) is a village in the municipality of Grožnjan-Grisignana in Istria, Croatia. According to the 2021 census, its population was...

Look up Sterna or sterna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sterna is a genus of seabirds. Sterna may also refer to: Sterna, the plural of sternum, the...

The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate...

Naturae, placing the gulls in the genus Larus and the terns in Sterna. He gave Sterna the description rostrum subulatum, "awl-shaped bill", referring...

Pallas in 1764 and given the binomial name Sterna albifrons. It was moved to the genus Sternula when the genus Sterna was restricted to the larger typical terns...

The roseate tern (Sterna dougallii) is a species of tern in the family Laridae. The genus name Sterna is derived from Old English "stearn", "tern", and...

but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Sterna maxima in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The royal tern is now...

The gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica), formerly Sterna nilotica, is a tern in the family Laridae. It is widely distributed and breeds in scattered...

white in the winter. The greater crested tern was originally described as Sterna bergii by German naturalist Martin Lichtenstein in 1823, but was moved to...

Etayeb, K. & Hamza, A. 2006: Report on the census of Lesser Crested Tern Sterna bengalensis in the Eastern coast of Libya. (1–7 August 2006). Unpublished...

after they have fledged. This species was previously included in the genus Sterna but with other small terns such as the little tern and the least tern it...

known as Sterna zimmermanni (or Thalasseus zimmermanni), until the rediscovery of the previously lost type specimen of Hermann Schlegel's Sterna bernsteini...

Sandwich tern was originally described by ornithologist John Latham in 1787 as Sterna sandvicensis, but was moved to its current genus Thalasseus (Boie, 1822)...

Forster's tern (Sterna forsteri) is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name Sterna is derived from Old English "stearn", "tern", and forsteri commemorates...

described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766 as Sterna fuscata, bearing this name for many years until the genus Sterna was split up; it is now classified in the...

white-winged black tern and common tern, writing "Sterna fissipes [Chlidonias leucopterus] et Hirundine [Sterna hirundo] natam". This bird has a number of geographical...

Sterna (Greek: Στέρνα) is a small village in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit Lyrkeia. "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού...

Katta Sterna, (born Katharina Ida Stern; December 19, 1897 – July 29, 1984) was a German actress and dancer. Katharina Stern was the daughter of engineer...

Queen Charlotte Sound, Marlborough in 1832, giving it the binomial name Sterna antarctica, which had already been used for the Antarctic tern by French...

Sterna Island (65°23′S 65°14′W / 65.383°S 65.233°W / -65.383; -65.233) is a small island lying 0.7 nautical miles (1.3 km) north of Darboux Island,...

The sternum (pl.: sternums or sterna) or breastbone is a long flat bone located in the central part of the chest. It connects to the ribs via cartilage...

Though described in 1822, the genus was largely treated as a synonym of Sterna until a 2005 study demonstrated that the systematics of the terns needed...

Hydroprogne Kaup, 1829 Species: H. caspia Binomial name Hydroprogne caspia (Pallas, 1770) Synonyms Sterna caspia Hydroprogne tschegrava Helopus caspius...

the Aleutian tern were recently split into a new genus Onychoprion from Sterna (Bridge et al., 2005). They resemble the sooty tern but with a grey back...

WoRMS: 567792 Xeno-canto: Onychoprion-anaethetus Sterna anaethetus Wikidata: Q25646284 ARKive: sterna-anaethetus CoL: 6ZSBN EUNIS: 100946 Fauna Europaea...

or Indian river tern (Sterna aurantia) is a tern in the family Laridae, the largest species currently included in the genus Sterna of typical terns. It...

Pteria sterna, or commonly known as the rainbow-lipped pearl oyster or the Pacific wing-oyster, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae...

Megali Sterna (Greek: Μεγάλη Στέρνα, old name: Greek: Τσιγούντσα Cugunci / Tsigountsa) is a village in the Kilkis region of Greece. It is situated in the...