Sterna paradisaea
– Least Concern
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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AVES
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Order:
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CHARADRIIFORMES
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Family:
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LARIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Sterna paradisaea
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Species Authority:
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Pontoppidan, 1763
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Common Name/s:
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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LC ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2004
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Ekstrom, J. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 1,000,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2002). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e., declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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History:
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| 1988 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 1994 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 2000 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2000) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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This species has a large range, with an estimated global Extent of Occurrence of 10,000,000 km². It has a large global population estimated to be 1,000,000 individuals (Wetlands International 2002). Global population trends have not been quantified, but the species is not believed to approach the thresholds for the population decline criterion of the IUCN Red List (i.e. declining more than 30% in ten years or three generations). For these reasons, the species is evaluated as Least Concern.
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Countries:
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Native:
Angola; Antarctica; Argentina; Australia; Belgium; Benin; Bermuda; Bolivia; Brazil; British Indian Ocean Territory; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Colombia; Congo; Cuba; Côte d'Ivoire; Denmark; Ecuador; Equatorial Guinea; Estonia; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Faroe Islands; Finland; France; Gabon; Gambia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Greenland; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Iceland; Ireland; Japan; Latvia; Liberia; Lithuania; Mauritania; Mexico; Morocco; Namibia; Netherlands; New Zealand; Nigeria; Norway; Paraguay; Peru; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Russian Federation; Saint Pierre and Miquelon; Sierra Leone; Somalia; South Africa; South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands; Spain; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; Togo; United Kingdom; United States
Vagrant:
Algeria; Austria; Belarus; Central African Republic; Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Costa Rica; Croatia; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Egypt; French Southern Territories; Gibraltar; Hungary; India; Indonesia; Israel; Italy; Jordan; Lesotho; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Luxembourg; Marshall Islands; Montenegro; Mozambique; Oman; Saint Helena; Senegal; Slovakia; Sudan; Switzerland; Turkey; Ukraine; Uruguay; Virgin Islands, U.S.
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Habitat and Ecology
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System:
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Terrestrial; Marine
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