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Charrán real
Королевская крачка
The royal tern has a red-orange bill and a black cap during the breeding season, but in the winter the cap becomes patchy. The royal tern is found in Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean islands. The royal tern lives on the coast and is only found near salt water.
Taken last June on Staple Island in Northumberland. These terns are everywhere, they nest on the ground and hover and dive bomb tourists, to defend their chicks.
Unlike most terns, the Gull-billed Tern has a broad diet and does not depend on fish. Instead it commonly feeds on insects, small crabs, and other prey snatched from the ground, air, or even bushes. It is also known to eat small chicks of other tern species.
The next in my seabird series is this tern flying along the gulf coast of Texas on South Padre Island. When I posted this shot earlier this morning, I wasn't sure whether this was a Caspian Tern or a Royal Tern. Thanks to Brennan Mulrooney (see his comment below), a positive ID is now established, Caspian Tern.
Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri) perched on the edge of an alkaline lake in southern Saskatchewan east of Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Canada.
19 May, 2013.
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I had the opportunity to photograph this very cooperative Least Tern that was incubating it’s eggs. Knowing that the Sun will go down behind the bird, I decided to spend the rest of the evening photographing the bird. Strangely, she/ he had no help from the partner, every hour or so the bird took a break to feed itself
Nikon D850 | 600mm | f4 | 1/1600 | ISO800
Massachusetts, USA | 28-Jul-2019
There aren't many Terns left at the nesting site, but I saw a few yesterday, and even a few chicks/juveniles...
Denis Island, Seychelles
Both the chick and the Ghost Crab are hoping the adult is about to regurgitate a meal.
We went on a visit to Penguin Island off Rockingham yesterday. Unfortunately we didn't see any wild Little Penguins but we saw some in the rehabilitation centre there. The island was heaving with terns, both Large Crested and a single Caspian
A Forster's Tern (Sterna forester) rests on an old fence post on the edge of Pelican Lake on the prairie landscape of Saskatchewan, Canada.
19 May, 2013.
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Baby tried valiantly to get it down, but couldn't. The parent eventually came back with a smaller fish.
In the 1800s, Forster’s Terns and several other tern species were shot, stuffed, and mounted onto large hats that were fashionable during the Victorian and Edwardian era millinery trade. This practice ended with the passages of the Migratory Birds Convention Act in Canada (1917) and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in the United States (1919).
This was a fun shoot waiting for adult Royal Terns to return to the beach to feed their adult sized young. People were walking up and down the beach right by the seemingly unconcerned gathering of Royal Terns. I kept my distance so the birds didn't shift their position for me but some walkers would walk right through their position causing a momentary shuffling about of some of the birds. This lens has proved a great walk around lens and with the R5 handheld it does a good job locking on the eye of the moving bird.
The white-fronted tern is the most common tern on the New Zealand coastline, at times occurring in flocks of many hundreds or even thousands of birds. It is mainly a marine species that is seldom found far from the coast. The name ‘white-fronted’ refers to the ‘frons’ or forehead, where a thin strip of white separates the black cap from the black bill. Most other ‘capped’ terns, including the black-fronted tern, have black caps that reach the bill when in breeding plumage. The scientific name striata refers to the finely-barred (striated) dorsal plumage of recently fledged white-fronted terns,
A quartet of Caspian Terns - featured in my "Down by the Sea" calendar for 2018. Please have a look at my new calendars. They would look great hanging on your wall in your kitchen, foyer and home office, or anywhere else for that matter. You can order on line directly - just click on this link to view each calendar design and hi resolution photos. sandypaiement.wixsite.com/photos
At this late date, Christmas delivery is not possible, but 2018 lasts an entire year so still plenty of time for delivery before the year runs out!
Whiskered Tern
Camar kepala hitam, Whiskered Tern, Chlidinias hybrid
This is a common migrant and winter visitor to coastal area of Peninsular Malaysia from August to April. During migration they can often be seen following fishing boats. Like the other Clidonians terns, it prefers to pick food items off the surface of the water. These are elegant flier, spends a lot of time on the wing, swooping down to pick aquatic prey out of the water surface.