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Species
Least Concernwhite-cheeked tern
Species
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAves
- OrderCharadriiformes
- FamilyLaridae
Habitatmarine
via IUCN
Wikidata facts
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- taxon common name
- andorinha-do-mar-arábica
- wingspan
- 78
- litter size
- 2
- short name
- S. repressa
- taxon range
- Africa
- taxon rank
- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Sterna repressa
- Commons category
- Sterna repressa
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Encyclopedic overview
The white-cheeked tern (Sterna repressa) is a species of tern in the family Laridae. It is found around the coasts on the Red Sea, around the Horn of Africa to Kenya, in the Persian Gulf and along the Iranian coast to Pakistan and western India.
Behaviour
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “White-cheeked Tern” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.