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roseate tern
roseate tern n. a tern, Sterna dougallii, which has a pale pink breast, long tail streamers, and a dark bill, and is found throughout the world.
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1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Tern—Roseate The length of the Roseate Tern is only fifteen inches and a half.
1862 C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 565 Roseate Terns have been discovered..in the mouth of the Clyde, Lancashire, and the Farn Islands.
1932 Auk 49 84 The Roseate tern (Sterna dougalli dougalli), at the time of the publication of Sage and Bishop's ‘Birds of Connecticut’, was a very rare bird in this State.
2002 Daily Tel. 7 June 10/3 The little tern, which winters in West Africa, is second only to the roseate tern in rarity among British nesting sea birds.
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roseate tern
Of the species, which are widely diffused from Arctic to extreme southern coasts, the British Museum Catalogue reckons more than 50, of which 33 are placed in the genus Sterna, and about 18 distributed in ten other genera. Of these, six are considered indigenous to the British coasts, and many more to those of North America. The common tern of Britain and North America is Sterna hirundo (or fluviatilis); the sandwich tern, the largest British species, now scarce, is S. cantiaca; the arctic tern, S. macrura; the roseate tern, S. dougalli; the little tern, S. minuta; the black tern, Hydrochelidon (formerly Sterna) nigra.extracted from ternn.1
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