Summary ²

The Forster's tern (Sterna forsteri) is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name Sterna is derived from Old English "stearn", "tern", and forsteri commemorates the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster.

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1. (c) Bert Filemyr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Bert Filemyr
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterna_forsteri

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