Sooty Tern
Onychoprion fuscatus
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 1,795
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a tern in the family Laridae. It is a seabird of the tropical oceans and can fly for years at a time, skimming the sea surface for food, and returning to land only to breed, on islands throughout the equatorial zone.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Sooty tern”.