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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Common Terns

Hebrides bird sightings - Arctic Tern

Common Terns

Sterna hirundo

Photography © Kim Park
19th July 2005
Western Isles (Outer Hebrides)

Our tern phototographs :

Arctic tern Arctic tern Common tern
Arctic tern
juvenile

Arctic tern

Common tern




The common tern has shorter tail streamers than wing tips, whereas the arctic tern has longer tail streamers than wing tips.

 

 

 

 

Visit Kim's web site of her photography of the Western Isles
www.bigbigskies.co.uk

 

Other local bird photographs


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