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00 3786. Küstenseeschwalbe🐦

Photo: W. Bulach · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesCharadriiformesLaridae
Birds

🐦Arctic Tern

Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763

Die Küstenseeschwalbe (Sterna paradisaea) ist eine Vogelart aus der Unterfamilie der Seeschwalben (Sterninae). Sie gilt als der Zugvogel mit der längsten Zugstrecke, da sie in der Nordpolarregion brütet und in den Südpolarregionen überwintert.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
21
Photos
2
Measurements
13
vs you
≈ 1/560th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.11 kg
Body length
0.38 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
34 years
All measurements ↓
Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Arctic Tern

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.11 kgrecord 0.11 kg · SeaLifeBase
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.1 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.38 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Tail length
0.18 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.26 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.04 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.02 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
34 years
AnAge
Details ↓

data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
21 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Coastal
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aerial
AVONET
Details ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Arctic Tern yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderCharadriiformes
  5. ›familyLaridae
  6. ›genusSterna
  7. ›speciesSterna paradisaea
Full lineage
  1. superclassSarcopterygii
  2. superclassTetrapoda
  3. orderSauria
  4. classBirds · Aves
All 9 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
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In other languages
Noordse stern (nl), Sterna paradisaea (es), Sterne arctique (fr), 北極燕鷗 (zh), Rybitwa popielata (pl), sarki csér (hu) … and 26 more languages
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00 3786. KüstenseeschwalbeAn arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) begrudges the other its prey
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