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Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea (bird family)

Identification Tips:

  • Length: 15 inches Wingspan: 31 inches
  • Sexes similar
  • Dives into water for prey
  • Medium-sized tern with short, slender, pointed bill
  • Short legs
  • Long, deeply forked tail
  • Smoothly rounded head without crest
  • Pale underwing with thin, well-defined, dark trailing edge
  • Gray upperwing
  • Translucent flight feathers
  • Breeds from Maine to Alaska but migrates mostly at sea, rarely seen from land
  • May attain full adult plumage in third year

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