Fairy tern Fairy tern The fairy tern ("Sternula nereis") is a small tern which is native to the southwestern Pacific. It is listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN and the New Zealand subspecies is "Critically Endangered". There are three subspecies: The fairy tern is a small tern with a white body and light bluish-grey wings. The crown and nape is black. It can be distinguished from the little tern in that a black band extends no further than the eye and not as far as the bill. In the breeding plumage both the beak and the legs are yellowish-orange. During the rest
Whiskered tern like winter adults. The first winter plumage is intermediate between juvenile and adult winter, with patchy ginger on the back. The whiskered tern eats small fish, amphibians, insects and crustaceans. Whiskered tern The whiskered tern ("Chlidonias hybrida") is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name is from Ancient Greek "khelidonios", "swallow-like", from "khelidon", "swallow". The specific "hybridus" is Latin for "hybrid"; Pallas thought it might be a hybrid of white-winged black tern and common tern, writing ""Sterna fissipes ["Chlidonias leucopterus"] et Hirundine ["Sterna hirundo"] natam"”. This bird has a number of geographical races, differing mainly in size and