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NIKON CORPORATION
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NIKON D2Xs
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f/5.6
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sRGB
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0 EV
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Manual
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No Flash
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420 mm
ISO
200
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Sat 21 Oct 2006 11:43:20 AM EDT
English Common Tern
Scientific (Sterna hirundo)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Laridae
Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Other name(s) Sterne pierregarin
Breeding Regions EU, NA
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Afghanistan,Albania,Algeria,Angola,Argentina,Armenia,Australia,Austria,Azerbaijan,Bahrain, Bangladesh,Belarus,Belgium,Belize,Benin,Bermuda,Bhutan,Bolivia,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Brazil, British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Burundi,Cambodia,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Chile,China,Colombia, Comoros,Congo,Cook Islands,Costa Rica,Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Djibouti, Dominican Republic,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,Egypt,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Estonia,Ethiopia,Finland, France,French Guiana,Gabon,Gambia,Georgia,Germany,Ghana,Gibraltar,Greece,Guam, Guatemala,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Hong Kong,Hungary,India - mainland,Indonesia, Iran,Iraq,Ireland,Israel,Italy,Ivory Coast,Japan,Jordan,Kazakhstan,Kenya, Kuwait,Kyrgyzstan,Latvia,Lebanon,Liberia,Libya,Liechtenstein,Lithuania,Luxembourg,Macedonia, Madagascar,Malaysia,Maldives,Mali,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Mexico,Micronesia,Moldova,Monaco, Mongolia,Morocco,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Nepal,Netherlands,Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Nigeria, North Korea,Northern Mariana Islands,Norway,Oman,Pakistan,Palau,Palestine,Panama,Papua New Guinea,Peru, Philippines,Poland,Portugal,Puerto Rico,Qatar,Romania,Russia,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia, Seychelles,Sierra Leone,Singapore,Slovakia,Slovenia,Solomon Islands,Somalia,South Africa,South Korea,South Sudan, Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Sweden,Switzerland,Syria,Taiwan,Tajikistan,Tanzania, Thailand,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago,Tunisia,Turkey,Turkmenistan,Uganda,Ukraine,United Arab Emirates,United Kingdom, United States - mainland,Uzbekistan,Vanuatu,Venezuela,Vietnam,Western Sahara,Yemen,Zambia,
IOC 9.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
hirundo North America to n South America, n, w Africa, Europe to nw Siberia and w China
tibetana w Himalayas to w Mongolia and Tibet
minussensis c Siberia to n Mongolia
longipennis ne Siberia to ne China
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Linnaeus, 1758
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Bird Data App text In breeding plumage looks like a [Forster's Tern], with black cap and orange and black bill. Look for black in the wings on the Common Tern, seen on some tips here. The Common Tern has a black bill in non-breeding plumage, and unlike other terns is often far out at sea, and not on the beach.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)