Utah Bird Profile
 Common Tern - Sterna hirundo

Name Roots: (ML. sterna, from OE. stern, starn, or tern, "tern" - L. hirundo, "a swallow")
In Utah:  
Nesting,
feeding,
characteristic behaviors:
Habitat:

by Jack Binch

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Occur. (RT)

(See Legend)

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