How to Use sooty tern in a Sentence
sooty tern
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Most likely from bird droppings; a whole colony of sooty terns had taken up residence among the cliffs surrounding the lake.
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Jill Kiedaisch,
Popular Mechanics,
2019-02-05
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The bird reserve is home to four species of pelagic seabirds—the greater crested tern, lesser crested tern, sooty tern, and the brown noddy.
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K A Shaji,
Quartz India,
2020-05-05
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Gilardi periodically comes to Wake to study the migratory seabirds, like the sooty terns, that stop here on their journey across the ocean.
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CBS News,
2018-01-14
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The photo this week is of a sooty tern by Jeff Lemons
Tropical systems are well known for their ability to displace seabirds caught up in the center of rotation.
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Taylor Piephoff,
charlotteobserver,
2017-09-22
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