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References

• 1. National Biodiversity Network Species Dictionary (January2004) http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nbn
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• 3. RSPB A-Z of Birds: Arctic tern (February 2004) http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/a/arctictern/index.asp
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• 5. Street, R. 1999. "Sterna paradisaea" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. (March 2004) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Sterna_paradisaea.html.
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• American Ornithologists' Union. 2006. Forty-seventh supplement to the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list of North American Birds. The Auk, vol. 123, no. 3. 926-936
• Araya BM & G Millie. 1991. Guía de campo de las aves de Chile. 4ta ed. Editorial Universitaria, Santiago. 405 p.
• Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds; Terres; Alfred A. Knopf: New York 1980.
• B., Bruun., & S. Baha El Din.   (1985).  Common Birds of Egypt, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo..  
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes. 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner. 1987. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79
• BirdLife International 2010. Sterna paradisaea
• Clapp et al. (1982) Longevity records of North American birds: Gaviidae through Alcidae. J Field Ornithol, 53:81-124.
• Egevang, C., Stenhouse I. J., Phillips R. A., Petersen A., Fox J. W., & Silk J. R. D. (2010). Tracking of Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea reveals longest animal migration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
• Gill, Frank, and Minturn Wright. 2006. Birds of the World: Recommended English Names. ix + 259
• John Terres (1980) The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds. Knopf: New York.
• M., Tharwat.   (1997).  ‘Birds Known to occur in Egypt’, National Biodiversity Unit, no. 8, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, Cairo..  
• R., Porter., & D. Cottridge.   (2000).  Birds of Egypt and the Middle East, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo..  
• Roger Gosden (1996) Cheating Time. MacMillan: London.
• S., Baha El Din., J. Hobbs., W. Mullie., S. Goodman., & P. Meininger.   (1989).  The Birds of Egypt, Oxford University Press, New York..