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Black Tern

Chlidonias niger ORDER: CHARADRIIFORMES FAMILY: LARIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

A small dark, graceful tern of freshwater marshes, the Black Tern eats insects as well as fish.

Calls

  • Calls
     
    Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Call a short "kik."

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