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Australasian Fairy Tern
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

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Australian Fairy Tern

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Australasian Fairy Tern

Sternula nereis

The fairy tern (Sternula nereis) is a small tern which is native to the southwestern Pacific. It is listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN and the New Zealand subspecies is "Critically Endangered".

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 144532.