Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Black-bellied Tern
Sterna acuticauda
The Black-bellied Tern (Sterna acuticauda) is a 153 g river bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 153 g
- Habitat
- Riverine
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 6
Recorded in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh.
Where to see it: Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve - General (Nepal); Okhla Bird Sanctuary (India); Bagan (Myanmar); Rawal Lake East - Bani Gala Side (Pakistan); Chitwan National Park - General (Nepal).
Photo: Kandukuru Nagarjun from Bangalore, India, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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