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..     BLACK TERN (chlidonias niger).     ..

Image: John Gould

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Length: 22-24cm

Wingspan: 64-68cm

Weight: 60-86g

Sharp 'teek teek' and quieter 'kik-kik'

 

 

Summer: freshwater marshes and lagoons.

Passage: freshwater lakes, gravel pits, reservoirs and saltmarshes.

Regular migrant

Locally common

Green List

34x25mm

N.B. EGG COLLECTING IS MURDER. IT IS IMMORAL AND IT IS AGAINST THE LAW.

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N-B

N-B

17 years

 

Passage: hundreds

 

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