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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. Typical Terns

genus

Typical Terns

Sterna

Includes
4 native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Common Tern native
  • Forster's Tern native
  • Arctic Tern native
  • Roseate Tern native
  • Black-naped Tern present

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native typical terns All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Common Tern Sterna hirundo 69,973 observations
  • Forster's Tern Sterna forsteri 35,758 observations
  • Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea 11,694 observations
  • Roseate Tern Sterna dougallii 2,460 observations

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