Scientific Name: Sterna aleutica
Abundance | |||
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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.