Tarn

Terns
Temporal range: Early Miocene tae present
Greater crested tern in first-year plumage
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Cless: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Faimily: Laridae
Subfaimily: Sterninae
Genera
  • Anous
  • Procelsterna
  • Gygis
  • Onychoprion
  • Sternula
  • Phaetusa
  • Hydroprogne
  • Gelochelidon
  • Larosterna
  • Chlidonias
  • Thalasseus
  • Sterna

Tarns is birds in the faimily Sternidae. They are maist sib to maws (faimily Laridae).