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  2. Tern - Wikipedia

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    The marsh terns, Trudeau's tern and some Forster's terns nest in inland marshes. The black noddy and the white tern nest above ground level on cliffs or in trees. Migratory terns move to the coast after breeding, and most species winter near land, although some marine species, like the Aleutian tern , may wander far from land.

  3. Common tern - Wikipedia

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    The common tern [2] (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions. Breeding adults have light grey upperparts, white ...

  4. Forster's tern - Wikipedia

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    Forster's tern was named by Thomas Nuttall in honor of Johann Reinhold Forster, the German naturalist who first suggested it differed from the common tern. [5] Its closest relative is the snowy-crowned tern ( S. trudeaui ) of South America; the two are sister species and basal to the rest of the genus Sterna .

  5. Common terns fledge in Erie for the first time in 60 ... - AOL

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    The game commission believes since 2012, 21 common tern nests have been started there but failed. Brian Whipkey is the outdoors columnist for USA TODAY Network sites in Pennsylvania.

  6. Sterna - Wikipedia

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    Common tern: Sterna hirundo: Europe, North Africa, Asia east to western Siberia and Kazakhstan, and North America. Roseate tern: Sterna dougallii: Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America, and winters south to the Caribbean and west Africa. White-fronted tern: Sterna striata: New Zealand and Australia Black-naped tern: Sterna sumatrana

  7. Rare roseate tern spotted along Lake Erie. Here's how ... - AOL

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    The roseate tern isn't the only rare bird to visit the Buckeye State in recent years. This past winter, an ancient murrelet was sighted in Lorain, Emmert said. This species is found on the Pacific ...

  8. Category:Terns - Wikipedia

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    The Terns are birds of the subfamily Sterninae in the family Laridae, the suborder Lari and order Charadriiformes. Subcategories.

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