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.

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

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