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Birdorable Sooty Tern

Cute bird Sooty Tern

A real Sooty Tern
The Sooty Tern is a bird of the tropical oceans, breeding on islands close to the equator. Sooty Terns are migratory and dispersive, wintering more widely through the tropical oceans. Sooty Terns breed in colonies on rocky or coral islands. It feeds by picking fish from the surface in marine environments, often in large flocks, and rarely comes to land except to breed, and can stay out at sea for between three to ten years!

Latin name:Onychoprion fuscata
Order:Charadriiformes
Family:Sternidae
Size:13 to 14 inches in length (33 to 36 cm) with a wingspan of 32 to 37 inches (92 to 94 cm)
International names:
DanishSodfarvet Terne (Danish)
SwedishSottärna (Swedish)
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