Fairy Tern

Fairy Tern

Taxobox
name = Fairy Tern
status = VU
status_system = iucn3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Charadriiformes
familia = Sternidae
genus = "Sterna"
species = "S. nereis"
binomial = "Sterna nereis"
binomial_authority = (Gould, 1843)
subdivision_ranks = subspecies
subdivision ="Sterna nereis davisae"
"Sterna nereis exsul"
"Sterna nereis nereis"

The Fairy Tern ("Sterna nereis") is a small tern which occurs in the southwestern Pacific.

There are three subspecies:
* Australian Fairy Tern, "Sterna nereis nereis" - breeds in Australia
* New Caledonian Fairy Tern, "Sterna nereis exsul" - breeds in New Caledonia
* New Zealand Fairy Tern, "Sterna nereis davisae" - breeds in northern New Zealand

Formerly classified as a Species of Least Concern by the IUCN [BLI (2004)] , recent research shows that its numbers are decreasing rapidly throughout its range; the New Zealand subspecies is on the brink of extinction since decades. The Fairy Tern is consequently uplisted to Vulnerable status in 2008 [BLI (2008)] .

Footnotes

References

*|year=2004|id=20814|title=Sterna nereis|downloaded=23 May 2008
* (2008): [http://www.birdlife.org/action/science/species/global_species_programme/whats_new.html [2008 IUCN Redlist status changes] . Retrieved 2008-MAY-23.
* Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine, "Last Chance to See" (Ballantine Books, 1992, ISBN 0345371984)

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=3281&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]


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