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title: "Amazonestern"
description: "Sternula superciliaris — Vogels. The yellow-billed tern (Sternula superciliaris) is a small seabird found in South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/yellow-billed-tern
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Amazonestern

> Sternula superciliaris — Vogels. The yellow-billed tern (Sternula superciliaris) is a small seabird found in South America.

- Scientific name: *Sternula superciliaris*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `freshwater` (Meren en rivieren)
- iNaturalist observations: 1377
- Wikidata: [Q1269049](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1269049)
- iNaturalist taxon: [144531](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/144531)

## Names

- en: Yellow-billed Tern
- de: Amazonasseeschwalbe
- es: Charrancito Amazónico
- fr: Sterne argentée
- nl: Amazonestern
- pt: Trinta-réis-anão
- pl: Rybitwa brazylijska

## Countries with the most observations

BR (497), AR (358), UY (94), PE (86), GF (52), CO (29), BO (16), PY (15), EC (8), GY (6), CR (4), TT (4)

## Summary

The yellow-billed tern (Sternula superciliaris) is a small seabird found in South America. It is a species of tern in the family Laridae.
It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, and freshwater lakes.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-billed_tern

## Photo

![Amazonestern](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-billed-tern/medium.jpg)

Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159663807

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-billed-tern?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).