Painted

Unknown

Published

1932

Volume

2

Plate

73

Aleutian Tern

Sterna aleutica

From the western coast of Asia some of these dark mantled sea rovers reach Alaskan shores. As soon as young birds are wing-wise they fly south with their parents, spending Winter among warm currents of the western Pacific ocean.

BREEDING

RANGE

North Pacific from Norton Sound to Kadiak Island, Alaska.

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