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Christian Hoefs

The smallest of terns breeding in Europe. Colonial breeder, occupying various types of open coastal and inland water-fringed habitats. Almost exclusively coastal in N Europe, elsewhere riverine, sometimes in quarries, often far inland or occasionally (in E Europe) in meadows or on flat roofs of buildings. The species has patchy distribution throughout most of Europe, Africa, Middle East, C, S & E Asia, and Australia (Gochfeld et al. 2020, Keller et al. 2020). European populations are migratory, the wintering grounds being largely in Africa.

Season of assessment

B

Population trendDecreasing
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)
66800-101000,81600
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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