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Arctic Tern Sterna paradisaea Scientific name definitions

Jeremy J. Hatch, Michael Gochfeld, Joanna Burger, and Ernest Garcia
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020

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Distribution of the Arctic Tern

Recommended Citation

Hatch, J. J., M. Gochfeld, J. Burger, and E. F. J. Garcia (2020). Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.arcter.01
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