The scientific name arises from the fact that this, the largest marsh tern, show similarities in appearance to both the white " Sterna " terns and to black tern.
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The genus name " Sterna " is derived from Old English " stearn ", " tern ", and " forsteri " commemorates the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster.
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Apart from the Sandwich tern, also common tern ( " Sterna hirundo " ) and Arctic tern ( " Sterna paradisaea " ) use to breed on Norderoog.
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Apart from the Sandwich tern, also common tern ( " Sterna hirundo " ) and Arctic tern ( " Sterna paradisaea " ) use to breed on Norderoog.
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Named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ( FIDS ), following their survey of 1947, for the colony of terns ( Sterna vitata ) on the southernmost island in the cove.
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As with other " Sterna " terns, the river tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, crustaceans, tadpoles and aquatic insects in rivers, lakes, and tanks.
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Roseate terns ( " Sterna dougallii " ) nested on West Goose Rocks Island in 1985, and lately, have been observed along Crescent Surf Beach in the Upper Wells Division.
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Many islands are found within the Gulf including; Middle Osborn Island, Kingsmill Island, Borda Island and the Montesquieu Islands ( including the Low Rocks and Sterna Island Important Bird Area ).
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So named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee ( UK-APC ) in 1959 because a large number of terns ( " Sterna vittata " ) breed here.
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It consists of a partial skeleton, including a partial skull, the lower jaws, sixty individual teeth, the sterna, the right humerus, the left radius, metacarpals and phalanges.
