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Sterna repressa (White-cheeked
tern)
Witwangsterretjie [Afrikaans]; Arabische stern [Dutch];
Sterne à joues blanches [French]; Weißwangen-seeschwalbe [German];
Gaivina-cinzenta [Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) > Order: Charadriiformes
> Family: Laridae > Genus: Sterna
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White-cheeked tern, Kuwait. [photo Tareq AlObaid ©] |
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Distribution and habitat
Breeds in the north-western Indian Ocean from western India
through the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf to northern Kenya, while it is a rare
vagrant to Tanzania and southern Africa. It has been recorded three times in
coastal KwaZulu-Natal, at the Umvoti River mouth in November 1975 and Richards
bay in March 1982 and November 1991.
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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