{"title":"First Record of the Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini in Japan","authors":"V. Dinets","doi":"10.3312/jyio.50.138","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini is a critically endangered seabird that nests in China and Korea and has long been expected to be recorded in Japan. In October 2018, the first observation of this species in Japan was made near Irabu Island, Okinawa Prefecture.","PeriodicalId":55867,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3312/jyio.50.138","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Chinese Crested Tern Thalasseus bernsteini is a critically endangered seabird that nests in China and Korea and has long been expected to be recorded in Japan. In October 2018, the first observation of this species in Japan was made near Irabu Island, Okinawa Prefecture.