Species profile—Chlidonias leucopterus (white-winged black tern)
Classification
Animalia (animals) → Aves (birds) → Laridae (gulls and terns) → Chlidonias leucopterus (white-winged black tern)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Animalia (animals)
- Class
- Aves (birds)
- Family
- Laridae (gulls and terns)
- Scientific name
- Chlidonias leucopterus (Temminck, 1815)
- Common name
- white-winged black tern
- WildNet taxon ID
- 1920
- Synonym(s)
- Sterna leucoptera
- Alternate name(s)
- white-winged tern
- Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- SL
- Back on Track (BoT) status
- Low
- Conservation significant
- Yes
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
- Species environment
- Marine & Terrestrial
Other resources
Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums (OZCAM) Atlas of Living AustraliaData source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=1920
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.