Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Adult White Tern with chick, Lord Howe Island, December 2011

Adult White Tern with chick, Lord Howe Island, December 2011

White Tern chick, Lord Howe Island, December 2011

White Tern chick, Lord Howe Island, December 2011

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CAVS: 0972

Species Gygis alba (Sparrman, 1786)

White Tern

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

  • Ascension Island
  • Saint Helena
  • Seychelles

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Lord Howe Island
    • New South Wales
    • Norfolk Island
    • Queensland
  • Federated States of Micronesia
  • Kiribati
  • New Zealand
    • Kermadec Islands
  • Northern Mariana Islands
  • Palau
  • Pitcairn Islands
  • Samoa (American)
  • Solomon Islands
  • Tonga
  • Tuvalu
  • Vanuatu
  • Western Samoa

Neotropical Region

  • Trinidad and Tobago

Oriental Region

  • Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Aust. Terr.)

Ecological Descriptors

Coral cay, lagoon, offshore waters, pelagic.

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)