CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae

Sterna hirundo  

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
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© Vik Dunis 2012
Werribee, VIC (Feb, 2012)

Common Terns breed in temperate Europe, North America and Asia and migrate south for the period of the Northern Hemisphere winter.*


*Frith, H.J. (Ed.) (1983). Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Readers Digest Services, p.214.

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Term in flight

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

My tern for a bath

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern