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Least tern (Sterna antillarum) - Interior population
Photo by Wayne Hathaway for the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership
Status: Endangered, listed May 28, 1985
Habitat: Bare alluvial islands and dredged spoil islands
Lead Region: 4
Region 3 Lead Office: Columbia Missouri Field Office
Range: Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas
Status: Endangered
The Interior Least Tern (Sternula antillarum) is the smallest of the terns found in North America. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark recorded their first observation of an Interior Least Tern on August 5, 1804 along the Missouri River, near present day Omaha, Nebraska while on their 1803—1805 “Voyage of Discovery” across North America (2013 Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership Annual Report). Historically, terns nested on sparsely-vegetated sandbars along major rivers in the Central United States. Much of their natural habitat has been lost because of broad-scale changes to our natural river systems that include invasive plants, dams and reservoirs, river channelization, bank stabilization, hydropower generation, and water diversion. Natural History and Regulatory InformationDec. 2011 Record Floods Shore Up Interior Least Tern Habitat
North Dakota Field Office Fact Sheet
Recovery Actions2009 Recovery Land Acquisition Grant: Acquisition of Marquette Island, an important resource for pallid sturgeon and interior least tern recovery on the Middle Mississippi River (Cape Girardeau County, Missouri)
August 2000 Indiana's First HCP Conserves Least Tern (2-page PDF Section 7 Consultation Information:Fact Sheet: Upper Mississippi River Section 7 Consultation
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Last updated:
September 21, 2016
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