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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-06

Sternula antillarum

Least Tern

WoRMS 567797ITIS 824127key itis:824127
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2026-08-06: worms_id 567797 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted) 2026-08-05: worms_id 567797 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted); WoRMS Sterna antillarum unaccepted -> Sternula antillarum; itis:176923 deprecated in ITIS -> itis:824127 (Sternula antillarum)

Silhouette · T. Michael Keesey · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Creagrus furcatus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon.

Least Terns on the Atlantic coast, New Jersey, USA. One of them has got a fish in its beak.
Photo · Bear Golden Retriever from auburn,ny, usa · CC BY 2.0 · commons

The least tern is a species of tern that breeds in North America and locally in northern South America. It is closely related to, and was formerly often considered conspecific with, the little tern of the Old World.W CalCOFI holds 42 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1988 and 2019.R

42
observations
42
records
42
sampling events
1988–2019
years
1
datasets

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Seabirds & Marine Mammals 42 obs · 42 events · 1988–2019
    name used: Sternula antillarum Least Tern · code LETE re-keyed

Groups

calcofi:seabirds

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:824127%22