Little White Tern

Little White Tern

Taxobox
name = Little White-tern


status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Charadriiformes
familia = Sternidae
genus = "Gygis"
species = "G. microrhyncha"
binomial = "Gygis microrhyncha"
binomial_authority = Saunders, 1876
synonyms = "Gygis alba microrhyncha" (but see text)

The Little White Tern or Little Fairy Tern ("Gygis microrhyncha") is a species of tern . It was for long - and often still is today - included as a subspecies in the larger White Tern ("Gygis alba").

It is found in French Polynesia and Kiribati.

ource

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/49284/all Gygis microrhyncha] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 24 July 2007.


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