White-winged Black Tern
Introduction
Distinctive in breeding plumage, this marsh tern is harder to pick out in its plainer non-breeding plumage. White-winged Black Tern is a scarce visitor to Britain & Ireland, with a handful of records every year, mostly between May and September.
Key Stats
Status and Trends
Conservation Status
Population Change
Population trends of this scarce species are not routinely monitored.
Distribution
This species is a rare vagrant and was recorded during Bird Atlas 2007–11 as shown on the map.
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European Distribution Map
Distribution Change
This vagrant is too rarely reported to map distribution change.
Seasonality
White-winged Black Tern is a rare late-spring/summer overshoot migrant and autumn vagrant.
Weekly pattern of occurrence
The graph shows when the species is present in the UK, with taller bars indicating a higher likelihood of encountering the species in appropriate regions and habitats.
Movement
Britain & Ireland movement
Biology
Survival and Longevity
Survival is shown as the proportion of birds surviving from one year to the next and is derived from bird ringing data. It can also be used to estimate how long birds typically live.
Classification, names and codes
Classification and Codes
- Order: Charadriiformes
- Family: Laridae
- Scientific name: Chlidonias leucopterus
- Authority: Temminck, 1815
- BTO 2-letter code: WJ
- BTO 5-letter code: WWBTE
- Euring code number: 6280
Alternate species names
- Catalan: fumarell alablanc
- Czech: rybák belokrídlý
- Danish: Hvidvinget Terne
- Dutch: Witvleugelstern
- Estonian: valgetiib-viires
- Finnish: valkosiipitiira
- French: Guifette leucoptère
- Gaelic: Steàrnag-bhreac
- German: Weißflügel-Seeschwalbe
- Hungarian: fehérszárnyú szerko
- Icelandic: Tígulþerna
- Irish: Geabhróg Bháneiteach
- Italian: Mignattino alibianche
- Latvian: baltsparnu zirinš
- Lithuanian: baltasparne žuvedra
- Norwegian: Hvitvingesvartterne
- Polish: rybitwa bialoskrzydla
- Portuguese: trinta-réis-negro-de-asa-branca / gaivina-d'asa-branca
- Slovak: corík bielokrídly
- Slovenian: beloperuta cigra
- Spanish: Fumarel aliblanco
- Swedish: vitvingad tärna
- Welsh: Corswennol Adeinwen
More Evidence
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