For|ster's tern

For|ster's tern
For|ster's tern «FRS tuhrz»,
a white tern with a grayish mantle, deeply forked tail, and silvery wing tips, which nests in marshes of western North America and along the coast of the southeastern United States.
[< Johann R. Forster, 1729-1798, a German naturalist]

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