Scientific Name: Sterna aleutica
| Abundance | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring | Summer | Fall | Winter |
| R | R | R | |
Field Notes
- Medium-sized tern with short, slender, pointed bill.
- Dark gray above and below.
- White forehead.
- Black cap.
- Black bill and legs.
- Long, deeply forked tail.
- Smoothly rounded head without crest.
- Mostly pale underwing with dark bar on secondaries.
- Sexes look alike.
