Black-fronted Tern

Chlidonias albostriatus (Gray, GR, 1845)

Black-fronted Tern, Chlidonias albostriatus, is a tern of New Zealand, breeding on rivers in the east of the South Island and ranging outside the breeding season to coastal North Island and Stewart Island. It is also known as sea martin, ploughboy, and tarapiroe. During breeding it gathers in colonies on islands within braided rivers. The species was described by Gray, GR, in 1845 and belongs to the family Laridae in the order Charadriiformes.

Order

Charadriiformes

Family

Laridae — Gulls, Terns, Skimmers

Breeding range

Australasia: rivers of e South I. (New Zealand)

Nonbreeding range

to coastal North and Stewart is. (New Zealand)