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Perth has or used to have 12 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Australian Fairy Tern.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Australian Fairy Tern

Sternula nereis nereis

Status: Vulnerable

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Sternula nereis nereis is found across 69 electorates.

A small piscivorous bird, the Fairy Tern is approximately 22–27 cm in length, 70 g in weight and has a wingspan of 44–53 cm. The Fairy Tern is bulky and round bodied.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Changed surface and groundwater regimes