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Forster's Tern
Sterna forsteri
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Common
Swoop
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
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Wikapialpha version
Forster's Tern
Sterna forsteri
Birdstrong against fish, reptiles
Common
While active with another bird in play, it hits 6 harder on its first attack after entering play (12 with two others).
Sterna forsteri
Photo: © Kathy Richardson (original photo) · CC BY 4.0 (licence text) · cropped
Strong against: it deals 20% more damage to them. Weak against: these types deal 20% more damage to it.
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.
It breeds inland in North America in the northern United States and southern Canada, and migrates south to winter in the southern United States, Mexico, the Caribbean, and northern Central America. It is also a rare but annual vagrant in western Europe, and has wintered in Ireland and Great Britain on a number of occasions.
This species breeds in colonies in marshes. It nests in a ground scrape and lays two or more eggs. Like all white terns, it is fiercely defensive of its nest and young.
The Forster's tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, but will also hawk for insects in its breeding marshes. It usually feeds from saline environments in winter, like most Sterna terns. It usually dives directly, and not from the "stepped-hover" favored by the Arctic tern. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.
Abridged excerpt from the Wikipedia article Forster's tern, by its authors, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: that’s what makes this card Common.
Every Common card has 100 points, shared between HP, ATK and DEF:
How they’re shared out:
DEF 33