The small stupid tern [1] ( lat. Anous tenuirostris ) is a species of seabirds from the gull family (Laridae) [2] .
| Little silly tern |
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| No rank : | Bilateral symmetrical |
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| International scientific name |
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Anous tenuirostris ( Temminck , 1823 ) |
| Security status |
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Least ConcernedIUCN 3.1 Least Concern : 22694805 |
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Body length 30–34 cm, wingspan 58–63 cm, body weight 97–120 g. The plumage of the body is blackish-brown. The forehead and upper part of the head are whitish, the nape and back of the head are ash gray; whitish bridle [3] .
The breeding season is in August - October. Breeding in large colonies, numbering several tens of thousands of pairs. The nest is constructed from wet plant material in a low shrub or on a horizontal or vertical fork in a tall mangrove tree. The distance between the nests is from 0.3 to 5 m [4] .
There are two subspecies [3] :
- Anous tenuirostris tenuirostris (Temminck, 1823) - Seychelles , Mascaren Islands , Mauritius , Maldives , Chagos ; probably Somalia . Flies on the Arabian Peninsula , Madagascar and the coast of Tanzania ; rarely Sri Lanka and the Bay of Bengal .
- Anous tenuirostris melanops Gould, 1846 - Houtman Abrolhos Islands (off the coast of Western Australia )
- ↑ Boehme R. L. , Flint V. E. The Bilingual Dictionary of Animal Names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Ed. ed. Acad. V. E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., "RUSSO", 1994. - S. 89. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
- ↑ Coursers, noddies, gulls, terns, auks, sandgrouse : [ eng. ] / F. Gill & D. Donsker (Eds). // IOC World Bird List (v 9.1). - 2019 .-- DOI : 10.14344 / IOC.ML.9.1 . (Retrieved February 23, 2019) .
- ↑ 1 2 Gochfeld, M., Burger, J., & Garcia, EFJ Lesser Noddy ( Anous tenuirostris ) . Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (February 23, 2019). Date of treatment February 23, 2019.
- ↑ Anous tenuirostris . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species .
