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Onychoprion

  • Onychoprion

    Onychoprion, the "brown-backed terns", is a genus of seabirds in the family Laridae. 
    The genus name is from Ancient Greek onux, "claw" or "nail", and prion, "saw".

    1/ Bridled tern (Nhàn lưng đen, Onychoprion anaethetus)
    The specific anaethetus means "senseless, stupid".

    2/ Sooty tern (Nhàn nâu, Onychoprion fuscatus), coloquially wideawake tern or just wideawake
    The specific fuscatus is Latin for "dark".

  • Sooty Tern

    Sooty tern (Nhàn nâu, Onychoprion fuscatus), coloquially wideawake tern or just wideawake

    The sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) is a tern in the family Laridae.

    Charadriiformes, Charadriidae, Charadrius: Late Latin word for a yellowish bird mentioned in the fourth-century Vulgate; from Ancient Greek kharadrios a bird found in ravines and river valleys (kharadra, "ravine").

    Laridae:from Ancient Greek laros or Latin larus, which appears to have referred to a gull or other large seabird.

    The genus name Onychoprion is from Ancient Greek onux, "claw" or "nail", and prion, "saw".

    The specific fuscatus is Latin for "dark".