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Fairy Tern
Sternula nereis
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Rare
Swoop
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
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Wikapialpha version
Fairy Tern
Sternula nereis
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Rare
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
Sternula nereis
Photo: © JJ Harrison (original photo) · CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
The fairy tern (Sternula nereis) is a small tern which is native to the southwestern Pacific. It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN and the New Zealand subspecies is critically endangered. Fairy terns live in colonies along the coastlines and estuaries of Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia, feeding largely on small, epipelagic schooling fishes, breeding in areas close to their feeding sites. They have a monogamous mating system, forming breeding pairs in which they mate, nest, and care for offspring.
There are three subspecies:
Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis (Gould, 1843) – breeds in Australia
New Caledonian fairy tern, Sternula nereis exsul (Mathews, 1912) – breeds in New Caledonia
New Zealand fairy tern / Tara iti, Sternula nereis davisae (Mathews & Iredale, 1913) – breeds in northern New Zealand
The three subspecies are distinguished by geographical range, and slight morphological differences. Gene flow between subspecies is little to none.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Fairy tern, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Rare.
Every Rare card has 130 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
DEF 49