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tern

[turn] / tɜrn /
NOUN
schooner
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Laboratory testing confirmed the disease had infected a greater crested tern in the town of Robe, South Australia.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

Five other seabirds were already on the list - the puffin, kittiwake, herring gull, roseate tern and arctic skua.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2024

The polar bears pop up from their winter lairs, the arctic tern soar back from their long journey south and the musk oxen wade north.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2024

That could damage habitats for local wildlife, including the endangered Texas hornshell mussel and the least tern, a small bird that nests along rivers, and affect the Monarch butterfly that migrates through the area.

From Reuters ● Aug. 11, 2023

He laid my painting in at the place where Audubon’s tern was missing.

From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt


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