White-fronted Tern
Sterna striata Gmelin, JF, 1789
Laridae — Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
White-fronted Tern, Sterna striata, breeds on coasts and offshore islands in New Zealand, including the North, South, Stewart, Chatham and Auckland islands, with a few colonies in the Furneaux group of Bass Strait islands. Outside the breeding season it occurs along the eastern and southern coasts of South Australia, Tasmania and south-eastern Queensland. It is a tern of the family Laridae, first named by Gmelin in 1789. In breeding adults, the head is capped in black from forehead to nape, with a narrow white band above the bill.
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae — Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
- Breeding range
- Australasia: coasts and satellites of North, South, Stewart, Chatham (e of South I.) and Auckland is. (s of South I.; New Zealand); also (few) Furneaux group, e Bass Strait is. (Australia)
- Nonbreeding range
- coastal e SA, Tasmania to se QLD (s, e Australia)
