Flying XEME
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XEME

Small gulls, such as Sabine’s gull (SAY-bin) (Xema sabini), are also called fork-tailed gulls, or xeme. In the genus Xema, it is the only species. It lays two or three spotted olive-brown eggs in a nest made of grass on the ground, as it breeds in colonies on beaches and in tundra. The pelagic Sabine’s…