Black Tern
Chlidonias niger
Summary 2
The black tern (Chlidonias niger) is a small tern generally found in or near inland water in Europe and North America. As its name suggests, it has predominantly dark plumage. In some lights it can appear blue in the breeding season, hence the old English name "blue darr".
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- (c) Ómar Runólfsson, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chlidonias_niger_-Iceland_-flying-8_(1).jpg
- Adapted by Minnesota Scientific and Natural Areas from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlidonias_niger
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