Sterna forsteri: taxon details and analytics

Sterna forsteri in languages:

Arabic

خرشنة فورسترية

Bokmål

Prærieterne

Czech

rybák Forsterův

Danish

Prærie-terne

Dutch

Forsters Stern

English

Forster's Tern

English

Havell's Tern

Estonian

Sootiir

Finnish

hopeatiira

French

sterne de Forster

German

Forsterseeschwalbe

German

Sumpfseeschwalbe

Hungarian

tavi csér

Italian

sterna di Forster

Japanese

メリケンアジサシ

Modern Greek

Αμερικανικό Ποταμογλάρονο

Portuguese

Garajau-de-forster

Russian

Крачка Форстера

Swedish

kärrtärna

Turkish

maskeli sumru

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Parent Taxon

• Sterna

Sibling Taxa

• Sterna acuticauda
• Sterna aurantia
• Sterna dougallii
• Sterna forsteri
• Sterna hirundinacea
• Sterna hirundo
• Sterna paradisaea
• Sterna repressa
• Sterna striata
• Sterna sumatrana
• Sterna trudeaui
• Sterna virgata
• Sterna vittata

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