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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Birds
  5. Gulls, Buttonquails, Sandpipers, Plovers and Allies
  6. Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
  7. True Terns
  8. Most observed native

Most observed native true terns

Native to the US, by how plants support them, most observed first.

Plant eaters All

3 native animals that feed on plants, most observed first.

  • Common Tern Sterna hirundo 69,973 observations
  • Black Tern Chlidonias niger 19,788 observations
  • Bridled Tern Onychoprion anaethetus 3,010 observations

Other species All

12 native species with no plant ties on record, most observed first.

  • Caspian Tern Hydroprogne caspia 47,177 observations
  • Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus 45,572 observations
  • Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri 35,758 observations
  • Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis 26,184 observations
  • Least Tern Sternula antillarum 16,431 observations
  • Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea 11,694 observations
  • Gull-billed Tern Gelochelidon nilotica 10,956 observations
  • Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans 10,027 observations
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