Editing Forster's tern (section)

==Habitat and distribution==

Forster's tern is a [[marsh]] dwelling species. It can be found either in freshwater, brackish or saltwater. It is often found over shallow open water deep in the marsh.<ref name="Sibley" /> Main habitats are marshes, estuaries, islands, salt marshes and marshy areas surrounding lakes and streams.<ref name="ARKive" />

Forster's tern is usually restricted to [[North America]].<ref name="Cornell" />  It nests in marshes during the summer, on both the Atlantic and Pacific coast, and also in the [[Prairies]] and on the [[Great Lakes]] in Canada and the US.<ref name="ARKive" /><ref name="Cornell" /><ref name="Visser94" >Visser JM and Peterson GW. 1994. Breeding populations and colony site dynamics of seabirds nesting in Louisiana. Colonial Waterbirds. 17(2): 146–152</ref> Due to the instability of its nesting habitat, Forster's tern exhibits a high annual turnover rate.<ref name="Visser94" />

Forster's tern also winters in marshes along the southern coast of the US and Mexico but can sometimes reach the northern extremity of Central America. It is also common for the tern to winter in the Caribbean.<ref name="Cornell" />

It is a near-annual vagrant to Western Europe and has occasionally wintered in Great Britain and Ireland.<ref name="ARKive" />