A sleek seabird of warm saltwater coasts, the Royal Tern lives up to its regal name with a tangerine-colored bill and ragged, ink-black crest against crisp white plumage.
Royal Terns fly gracefully and slowly along coastlines, diving for small fish, which they capture with a swift strike of their daggerlike bills.
They are social birds, gathering between fishing expeditions on undisturbed beaches and nesting in dense, boisterous colonies.
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