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Arctic Tern
Sterna paradisaea · Family Laridae
Sterna paradisaea
Family Laridae
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Laridae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 847,850
- Countries and territories with records
- 135
About this species
This species has 847,850 occurrence records from 135 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from Sweden (25.6%), the United States (18.1%), Finland (15.7%), Denmark (9.4%) and Norway (6.6%); together they account for 75.4% of the total. In Sweden, this species accounts for 0.21% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Sterna paradisaea combines the genus name Sterna with the species epithet paradisaea. The Warbla app catalog lists 13 species of the genus Sterna; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Sterna hirundo, Sterna forsteri and Sterna dougallii.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 101 species of the family Laridae. This species ranks 22nd among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Larus delawarensis. Its record count is close to the family average (874,525). The family Laridae belongs to the order Charadriiformes, which has 340 species in the Warbla app catalog.