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Roseate Tern

Brett Westwood presents the Roseate Tern.

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.

Brett Westwood presents the Roseate Tern. One of the rarest of the UK's breeding seabirds, the Roseate Tern is exquisitely graceful. Roseate means flushed with pink and seen close this bird does have a faint pinkish wash on its chest in summer, but from a distance, it's the brilliant-white freshly-laundered look of its back and wings that distinguishes a Roseate Tern from its greyer relatives, the Common and Arctic Terns.

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Last on

Tue 12 Sep 2023 05:58

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  • Wed 4 Sep 2013 05:58
  • Wed 13 Aug 2014 05:58
  • Sun 17 Aug 2014 08:58
  • Mon 16 Mar 2020 05:58
  • Tue 12 Sep 2023 05:58

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