Species
Sterna forsteri (Forster’s tern)
Sterna forsteri. Photo: (c) Bert Filemyr, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The Forster’s tern (Sterna forsteri) is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name Sterna is derived from Old English “stearn”, “tern”, and forsteri commemorates the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster.