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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Shore Birds Terns Common Tern Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)   Range: EU, NA (range map) info Photo by Graham Searll    - South Africa  Sizes: 800x567 1152x817 1444x1024 histogram Full size: 1444x1024 next (Common Tern) last first previous  (Caspian Tern) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Photo Properties summary  details Make NIKON CORPORATION Model NIKON D2Xs Aperture Value f/5.6 Color Space sRGB Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Exposure Program Manual Flash No Flash Focal Length 420 mm ISO 200 Metering Mode Center Weighted Average Shutter Speed Value 1/2500 sec Date/Time Sat 21 Oct 2006 11:43:20 AM EDT Additional Information 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 German French Chinese Japanese Russian Spanish Portuguese 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) next (Common Tern) last first previous  (Caspian Tern)