Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Black-fronted Tern
Chlidonias albostriatus
The Black-fronted Tern (Chlidonias albostriatus) is a 95 g coastal bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 95 g
- Habitat
- Coastal
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 1
Recorded in New Zealand.
Where to see it: Kaikoura · offshore · Albatross Encounter pelagic (general) (New Zealand); Miranda · main hide/Limeworks (New Zealand).
Photo: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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