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sea swallow
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synonyms: common tern, Sterna ???
tags: [avian] [britain]
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Definition:A small, gull-like shore bird of the species Sterna hirundo, of wide geographic distribution.from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
photo: By Badjoby - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4537951audio file: by Mdf under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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A flight of sea-swallows rested on the Nautilus. It was a species of the Sterna nilotica, peculiar to Egypt; its beak is black, head grey and pointed, the eye surrounded by white spots, the back, wings, and tail of a greyish colour, the belly and throat white, and claws red.
Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.
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Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
Ernest Hemingway. The Old Man and the Sea, p.29 (1952)
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I would feel the satisfaction of being shut in from the outer world (like the sea-swallow which builds at the end of a dark tunnel and is kept warm by the surrounding earth)
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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