found: Work cat.: Hansen, K. New Zealand fairy tern (Sterna nereis davisae) recovery plan, 2005-15, c2006:abstr. (New Zealand fairy tern (Sterna nereis davisae) is New Zealand's rarest indigenous breeding bird. It is a morphologically distinct, geographically and genetically isolated, endemic subspecies of an Australasian species, which consists of two other recognised subspecies: S. n. nereis in Australia and S. n. exsul in New Caledonia)
found: Avibase : the world bird database, via WWW, Mar. 4, 2007(New Zealand Fairy Tern (Sterna nereis davisae); subspecies of Sterna nereis)
found: The IUCN red list of threatened species, via WWW, Mar. 4, 2007(Sterna nereis occurs in Australia (subspecies nereis), New Caledonia (to France) (exsul) and northern New Zealand (davisae))
found: New Zealand recognised bird names (NZRBN) database, via WWW, Mar. 4, 2007(Sterna nereis davisae, New Zealand Fairy Tern)