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 Tern

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Term in flight

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

My tern for a bath

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern

Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)

Common Tern