English: Whiskered Tern 

Russian: Белощёкая крачка
Mongolian: Цагааншанаат хараалзай, Шанаа цагаан хараалай
German: Weissbart-Seeschwalbe
French: Guifette moustac
Japanese:  クロハラアジサシ (Kurohara-ajisashi) 

Body length: 23-29 cm
Wing Span: 64-70 cm

Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-August

Egg number: 3 (occasionally 2, 4)
Egg colour: Pale olive-buff with blackish-brown and pale grey spots, blotches.
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least Concern
Regional Status: Least Concern

Food: insects, spiders, small fishes, and young amphibians.

Habitat: nests in colonies on islands, marshes, and shores of rivers and lakes with reed beds and tall sedge. The nest is accumulation of reeds and sedges and other plants on the ground or floating, less solid than a Black tern’s nest, and a central hollow without definite lining. On migration they occur on shores, river banks, and marshes with tussocks, bare ground and sandbars.