Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Black-naped Tern
Sterna sumatrana
The Black-naped Tern (Sterna sumatrana) is a 106 g ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 106 g
- Habitat
- Marine
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 25
Recorded in Australia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Palau, Fiji, Malaysia, MV, New Caledonia, Philippines, Japan, China, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, MH, Solomon Is., Guam, SC, IO, Samoa, Vietnam, Tonga.
Where to see it: Nukunonu Village (Tokelau); Nauru (Nauru); Blue Lagoon Dive Resort (Federated States of Micronesia); Tuvalu (Tuvalu); Wallis (Wallis and Futuna).