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From Swakopmund's sands to Amsterdam's canals: A Tern's 8,429-kilometer Odyssey

have been out at night at the Swakopmund Salt Works together with Mark Boorman on almost twenty occasions to ring terns between February 2006 and January 2014. During this period, I ringed 326 Common Terns and fitted one of them, an immature bird, with ring 4H39662 on 23 March 2007. This individual was then sighted in the Netherlands at

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