- Sterna vittata
Identification
31-38 cm. Pale grey and white, black cap when breeding otherwise streaked with white, greyish black wing tips, dark red or blackish bill. Juveniles - white belly, foreneck, forehead, and breast, grey back, black bill, orange-red legs and feet.
Distribution
Southern Oceans.
Taxonomy
There are two subspecies; S v vittata and S v bethunei.
Habitat
Coasts and sea.
Behaviour
The diet includes fish.
Up to 3 eggs are laid in a shallow pebble-or shell-lined scrape on the ground, between October and January.