Little White Tern

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Little White-tern
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Sternidae
Genus: Gygis
Species: G. microrhyncha
Binomial name
Gygis microrhyncha
Saunders, 1876
Synonyms

Gygis alba microrhyncha (but see text)

The Little White Tern or Little Fairy Tern (Gygis microrhyncha) is a species of tern. It was for long - and often still is today - included as a subspecies in the larger White Tern (Gygis alba).

It is found in French Polynesia and Kiribati.

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