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TitleGrey-backed Tern
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
Rating3
VettedUntrusted
Description
This adult was photographed on tern Island, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. The species resembled the sympatric Sooty Tern but was a lot less common and nested in more marginal habitat on the island, at lower density. They were less aggressive and had a different call.
Original URLhttp://farm2.staticflickr.com/1079/1338419855_c8117b3830_o.jpg
photographerDuncan
providerFlickr: EOL Images
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith