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Michele Mendi

Small tern breeding solitary or colonially in a wide variety of flat and open habitats in coastal and inland areas, increasingly on roofs. Breeds patchily in most of Europe, also Asia and N America.  Strongly migratory, European population wintering mainly along coasts of Africa, bays, harbours, lakes and rivers. Geolocators revealed offshore wintering at upwelling seas of W Africa is common (Becker et al. 2016). Large variation in migratory strategies among individuals, but high repeatability within (Kürten, et al. 2022). European population 316,000-605,000 breeding pairs, increasing.

Season of assessment

B

Population trendUnknown
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)
881000-1430000,1120000
Red List categoryLC
Franks, S., Fiedler, W., Arizaga, J., Jiguet, F., Nikolov, B., van der Jeugd, Ambrosini, R, Aizpurua, O., Bairlein, F., Clark, J., Fattorini, N, Hammond, M., Higgins, D, Levering, H., Skellorn, W., Spina, F, Thorup, K. Walker, J., Woodward, I. and Baillie, S.R. (1) (2022) Online Atlas of the movements of European bird populations. https://migrationatlas.org EURING/CMS (1) Principal investigator
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