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Arctic Tern flying over the North Sea near the Farne islands in Northumberland.

An Arctic Tern bird and it's chick on the island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis), tern chick in the nest, Tiligulskiy estuary, Ukraine

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Küstenseeschwalbe / Arctic tern / Sterna paradisaea

$L 22-26cm, WS 56-62cm.\ncommonest marsh tern, breeding in freshwater marshes with patches of low, floating vegetation, often among Black-headed Gulls for protection.\nSummer visitor (mainly late April-September), winters in Africa.\n\nThis is a quite common Tern in the Netherlands in the described Habitats (Marsh area's).\nWhile the floating Habitats were disappearing (fields of Stratiotes) in the last decades, Nature Organizations have been experienced with artificial nests, with good results (see these Pictures).$