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Black-naped Tern
An oceanic tern mostly found in tropical
and subtropical areas of the Pacific and
Indian Oceans...is rarely found inland.
Sterna sumatrana
(L 12")
Michaelmas Cay
Great Barrier Reef
25Oct2015
I love the suave, nonchalant waltzing of the
the tern, that Fred Astair of the skies.
(John Bevis)
Sterna
or starn
is Old English
for
tern
.
© eBird
© Emma Greig
Macaulay
Library