Sterna
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Sterna | image = Tern-KayEss-2.jpeg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = Common Tern by the Thames River | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Aves | ordo = Charadriiformes | familia = Sternidae | genus = Sterna | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = Many, see text. }} Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Sternidae.
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Classification
- Subgenus Gelochelidon
- Gull-billed Tern, Sterna nilotica (Gelochelidon nilotica)
- Subgenus Hydroprogne - Caspian Tern.
- Caspian Tern, Sterna caspia (Hydroprogne caspia)
- Subgenus Thalasseus - crested terns.
- Royal Tern, Sterna maximus (Thalasseus maximus)
- Greater Crested Tern or Swift Tern, Sterna bergii (Thalasseus bergii)
- Chinese Crested Tern, Sterna bernsteini (Thalasseus bernsteini)
- Elegant Tern, Sterna elegans (Thalasseus elegans)
- Lesser Crested Tern Sterna bengalensis (Thalasseus bengalensis)
- Sandwich Tern, Sterna sandvicensis (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
- Subgenus Sterna - typical white terns
- River Tern Sterna aurantia
- Roseate Tern, Sterna dougallii
- White-fronted Tern, Sterna striata
- Black-naped Tern, Sterna sumatrana
- South American Tern, Sterna hirundinacea
- Common Tern Sterna hirundo
- Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea
- Antarctic Tern, Sterna vittata
- Kerguelen Tern, Sterna virgata
- Forster's Tern, Sterna forsteri
- Trudeau's Tern, Sterna trudeaui
- White-cheeked Tern Sterna repressa
- Black-bellied Tern, Sterna acuticauda
- Black-fronted Tern, Sterna albostriata
- Subgenus Sternula - little tern group.
- Little Tern Sterna albifrons
- Saunders' Tern, Sterna saundersi (Often considered conspecific with Little Tern)
- Least Tern Sterna antillarum (Often considered conspecific with Little Tern)
- Yellow-billed Tern, Sterna superciliaris
- Peruvian Tern, Sterna lorata
- Fairy Tern, Sterna nereis
- Damara Tern, Sterna balaenarum
- Subgenus Haliplana - "brown-backed" terns.
- Aleutian Tern, Sterna aleutica
- Grey-backed Tern, Sterna lunata
- Bridled Tern, Sterna anaethetus
- Sooty Tern, Sterna fuscata