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Sterna lunata
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Species description or overview

Pakalakala (gray-backed tern) overview View info about Adobe Acrobat PDF format
An overview of Sterna lunata is provided by the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (Hawaii's Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy, 2005).

Taxonomy & nomenclature

Sterna lunata information from ITIS
The Integrated Taxonomic Information System ITIS provides authoritative taxonomic information on Sterna lunata, as well as other plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

Images

Sterna lunata - Gray-backed tern, pakalakala (Laridae) images
Images are from the Birds of Hawaii (Starr) site.

Images of Sterna lunata (gray-backed Tern, pakalakala) from Hawaii
Online images of Sterna lunata (gray-backed Tern, pakalakala) from Hawaii are made available by Forest & Kim Starr.

Books

Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives)
Veitch, C.R. and M.N. Clout (eds.) . 2002. Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives). IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. vii + 414pp. ISBN: 2-8317-0682-3.

Natural history of Nihoa and Necker Islands (citation)
The Nihoa and Necker Islands Biological Survey Handbook citation, list of taxa covered in this Bishop Museum publication, and link to purchase information are on the HEAR bibliography site.

Full-text articles

Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives)
Veitch, C.R. and M.N. Clout (eds.) . 2002. Turning the tide: The eradication of invasive species (proceedings of the International Conference on Eradication of Island Invasives). IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. vii + 414pp. ISBN: 2-8317-0682-3.

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