Keywords: Indiana, Larus delawarensis, least
tern, nest success, productivity, ring-billed gull, Sterna antillarum
Last year, no little
terns fledged after the birds abandoned all 40 nests following 14 hours of 50mph winds.
Canes were also erected across a portion of Lamb Island to exclude gulls from the
tern colony.
Many hatched around the Irish Sea, including Sandwich
Terns from Cemlyn nature reserve and Little
Terns from Gronant beach, but three Sandwich
Terns seen last week had travelled much farther.
Like all Thalasseus
terns, the Lesser crested
tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish.
This route will add about 30 minutes on to the journey between the Gingerbread Man and
Tern Hill.
Tern had sought specifically seeking to repeal a law that requires a physician performing an abortion to use any means necessary to keep alive a fetus that is delivered alive.
This fine picture of a common
tern was taken by Dave Pearce
In the middle of it all, forming unruly flocks thousands of birds strong, are handsome black-and-white seabirds called sooty
terns. Though most species of tern--closely related to gulls--frequent beaches and marshes, sooty
terns are at home only on the open seas, but starting in the winter, they return from the far pelagic reaches to the Dry Tortugas.
This meant, that during the spring months in the last two years, I spent all my time in the river monitoring different
tern breeding colonies and determining the outcomes of nests and reasons for failure.
Based on Flexiant's 2014 statutory accounts, the assets acquired by
Tern were valued at approximately GBP 20,000 (USD 26,882).
The Northumberland Little
Tern Project is looking for volunteers to protect vulnerable nesting shorebirds this summer.
This study was undertaken to evaluate diet and diet assessment methods at two nesting sites of the California least
tern (Sternula antillarum browni).
In Victoria, the Little
Tern Sternula albifrons and Fairy
Tern S.
WHEN THEY WERE WILLING to put such things in print, biologists called the Caspian
tern "the king of all
terns." With a white body, light gray back, black cap, and bright coral red bill, they are a common sight on the lower reaches of the Columbia, patrolling on long thin wings, heads down, scanning for fish.
