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Royal Tern

Sterna maxima ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: LARIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

Royal Tern Photo

© Scott A. Haber

A large, orange-billed tern, the Royal Tern is found only along ocean beaches.

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Calls

  • Calls
    Recorded by Robert C. Stein, Theodore A. Parker III
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a loud, rolling "keer-reet."

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