Burung laut (Seabirds)
Least Tern
Sternula antillarum
- umum
- 56 km/h
- Pemula
- Risiko rendah
Smallest tern in the Americas, smaller than a robin. Hovers, dives, and delivers in miniature.
- Populasi
- ~120,000 individuals globally (~52,000 in the US/Canada)
- Habitat
- Sandy or gravelly coastal beaches, sandbars, and islands, plus riverine sandbars on major interior rivers and the Great Lakes; also uses gravel pits, abandoned salt flats, and flat rooftops for nesting, and forages over oceans, bays, estuaries, rivers, lagoons, and marshes
- Fakta menarik
- It is the smallest tern species in North America, and banding records indicate at least one individual lived beyond 24 years — among the longest-lived Least Terns documented.
- Sebaran
- Breeds along coastal beaches of North America (Maine to California and the Gulf Coast), the Great Lakes, and along major interior US rivers (e.g., Mississippi, Missouri, Rio Grande systems), with a small breeding presence locally in northern South America; winters along marine coastlines of Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America as far as Brazil
- Makanan
- Small fish (e.g., anchovies, silversides, killifish, sandlance, herring, hake, menhaden) caught by plunge-diving into shallow water, occasionally supplemented with small crustaceans/shrimp, insects, and (during El Niño events) tadpoles or small mollusks
- Ukuran
- 0,23 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,51 m
- Masa hidup
- 10 tahun
