Examples of tern in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Wachusett Reservoir hosted 16 common mergansers, three Bonaparte’s gulls, a laughing gull, and a common tern. — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021 Bristol County: There was an American white pelican at Cockeast Pond in South Dartmouth, a Caspian tern and a clay-colored sparrow at Gooseberry Neck in Westport, and a sedge wren at Broad Cove in Somerset. — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021 Middlesex County: Reports included a white ibis and three orchard orioles at the Heard Conservation Area in Wayland, a little blue heron in Westford, and a Caspian tern in Wakefield. — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021 During the most recent migration season, the project attached 35 GPS transponders to several species, including the Eurasian wigeon, Caspian tern, and the Heuglin’s gull. — Lindsey Mcginnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Oct. 2021 In Provincetown, there were two Cory’s shearwaters, a little gull, a Sabine’s gull, and a royal tern at Race Point. — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021 South Coast: There was a little blue heron, a sandwich tern and a willow flycatcher in Fairhaven. — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021 At Cranes Beach in Ipswich, four black skimmers and a royal tern were seen. — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021 Other notable species included a brown booby observed from a whale watching boat several miles north of Provincetown, and a royal tern, a razorbill, and a common murre off Race Point Beach in Provincetown. — BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2021 See More

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