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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 Unpublished...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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 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,...

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

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...

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...

The sternum (pl.: sterna) is the ventral portion of a segment of an arthropod thorax or abdomen. In insects, the sterna are usually single, large sclerites...

mangroves from the harbour. Hansen, Katrina (2006). New Zealand fairy tern (Sterna nereis davisae) recovery plan, 2005-15 (PDF). Threatened Species Recovery...

Sterna (Greek: Στέρνα, before 1927: Σολομίστι – Solomisti), is a village in Kozani Regional Unit, Macedonia, Greece. It is part of the community of Velanidia...

Civil Service. It was originally given the name black-shafted ternlet (Sterna saundersi) by Hume, which was later changed to its present name. It is considered...

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

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...

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

Sterna Linhas Aéreas was a cargo airline based in Curitiba, Brazil, founded in 2014. It operated cargo services. The Sterna Linhas Aéreas fleet consisted...