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Species profile—Onychoprion fuscatus (sooty tern)

Classification

Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Laridae (gulls and terns) → Onychoprion fuscatus (sooty tern)

Photo of Onychoprion fuscatus (sooty tern) - Queensland Government,1991
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Species details

Kingdom
Animalia (animals)
Class
Aves (birds)
Family
Laridae (gulls and terns)
Scientific name
Onychoprion fuscatus Linnaeus, 1766
Common name
sooty tern
WildNet taxon ID
1898
Synonym(s)
Sterna fuscata
Onychoprion fuscata
Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
Least concern
Conservation significant
No
Endemicity
Native
Pest status
Nil
Species environment
Marine & Terrestrial

Other resources

Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM)
Atlas of Living Australia

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Data source

This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1898

This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.

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Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Last updated
8 March 2022
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