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Common Tern
Sterna hirundo
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The Common Tern is one of four very similar terns on this continent. The species lives up to its name as a 'common' tern mainly in the northeastern United States; over much of the continent, it is outnumbered by the similar Forster's Tern. Also widespread in the Old World.
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