Common Tern

Name: Common Tern

Scientific name: Sterna hirundo

Category: Birds

Nature Stars: 50

What are nature stars?

About: A medium-sized tern, about 35cm long. This is the commonest tern and the one you are most likely to see away from known breeding colonies. Silvery-grey above and white below, with a large black cap. Short red legs and a red bill with a black tip. Common T

How to identify: Common Tern and Arctic Tern can be very difficult to tell apart. The Common Tern is whiter below, has shorter tail streamers and a longer bill, orangey red with a black tip.

Where: A summer visitor, nesting on gravelly beaches and islands around the coast and inland on gravel pits and reservoirs.

Natural Superpowers

• Predator: 70
• Agility: 80
• Rarity: 40
• Cute factor: 50
• Traveller: 80

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