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Image 00869, White (or fairy) tern., Gygis alba, Rose Atoll National Wildlife Sanctuary, Copyright © Phillip Colla, all rights reserved worldwide. Keywords: above water:alba:american samoa:animal:animalia:aves:bird:camar:charadriiformes:chordata:fairy tern:gygis:gygis alba:laridae:marine national monuments:national wildlife refuges:oceans:pacific:rose atoll:rose atoll marine national monument:rose atoll national wildlife refuge:rose atoll national wildlife sanctuary:samoa:tern:usa:vertebrata:vertebrate:white tern.

Gygis alba is the scientific name of the small Fairy Tern (also known as White Tern). These most elegant and beautiful of all sea birds inhabit remote oceanic islands. Our photographs of Fairy Terns were taken on Rose Atoll in the Samoan archipelago.

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