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    Sterna is a genus of terns in the bird family Laridae. The genus used to encompass most "white" terns indiscriminately, but mtDNA sequence comparisons...
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    Šterna (Italian: Sterna) is a village in the municipality of Grožnjan-Grisignana in Istria, Croatia. According to the 2021 census, its population was...
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    The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic...
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  • Look up Sterna or sterna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sterna is a genus of seabirds. Sterna may also refer to: Sterna, the plural of sternum, the...
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    Sooty tern (redirect from Sterna fuscata)
    described by Carl Linnaeus in 1766 as Sterna fuscata, bearing this name for many years until the genus Sterna was split up. It is now known as Onychoprion...
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    Pteria sterna, or commonly known as the rainbow-lipped pearl oyster or the Pacific wing-oyster, is a species of marine bivalve mollusk in the family Pteriidae...
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  • Sterna (Greek: Στέρνα) is a small village in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. It is part of the municipal unit Lyrkeia. "Αποτελέσματα Απογραφής Πληθυσμού...
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    Common tern (redirect from Sterna hirundo)
    The common tern (Sterna hirundo) is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate...
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    The roseate tern (Sterna dougallii) is a species of tern in the family Laridae. The genus name Sterna is derived from Old English "stearn", "tern", and...
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    Royal tern (redirect from Sterna maxima)
    but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Sterna maxima in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The royal tern is now...
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