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sooty

2 Kiribati words

• tarangongo
  • Goo & Banner <bird> grey backed tern (The adult is similar in build to the sooty tern but slightly smaller and the upper parts are soft grey instead of sooty black; The underparts are white and the feet and bill black. The head is... except for a white forehead and a white band extending back above each eye.) (aa).
• keu
  • Goo & Banner <bird> sooty tern (The sooty tern is a rare bird in the Gilberts and Ellice groups, there being small colonies at Funafuti, Nonouti and Kuria. The adult bird has a broad white band on the forehead extending above the... The crown, nape and upper parts are dull sooty black, white underparts with some greyish feathers under the tail. The bill and feet are black.) (aa).