[2647/11080] Common tern - Sterna hirundo
Order: Charadriiformes
Suborder: Lari
Family: Laridae (gulls, terns and skimmers)
Subfamily: Sterninae (terns)
Photo credit: Josiah Lavender via Macaulay Library
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Sterna hirundo [アジサシ,Common Tern]
同じ場所には止まれないよ!
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Common Tern scanning the water for fish!
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 2
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Feeding drama with the terns (it is either an arctic tern or a common tern, I am not sure).
It started of with the young term screaming at every parent bird flying by. Finally an adult bird with a fish comes to the little pontoon, but evidently it is not the right adult bird, because while that one tried to give the rather big fish to the young one the chick was not interested at all. And as you can see in the second picture the adult bird looked a bit lost like it didn’t know what to do with the fish. In the end the adult gave up and flew to the next pontoon and fed a chick there. Finally the right adult bird came by and fed the chick which immediately afterwards was screaming for more fish.
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Common tern
By: Unknown photographer
From: WWF Nature in Danger Stickers
1987
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Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
© Bob MacDonnell
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Common Tern - Andorinha-do-mar-comum (Sterna hirundo): juvenile
Oeiras/Portugal (22/09/2023)
[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR; 1/2500s; F6,3; 400 ISO]
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Common tern - The Port A Jetty, East Cotter Avenue, Port Aransas, TX, USA
Joshua J. Cotten
Scientific name: Sterna hirundo
Mass: 4.2 oz
Conservation status: Least Concern (Population decreasing)
Class: Aves
Family: Laridae
Genus: Sterna
Kingdom: Animalia
The common tern is a seabird in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar distribution, its four subspecies breeding in temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly migratory, wintering in coastal tropical and subtropical regions.
Common Terns nest on rocky islands, barrier beaches, and saltmarshes and forage over open waters. Terns often gather over warmer waters with high densities of American sand lance (a small fish) in the spring, and tuna that help scare up smaller fish in the fall.
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Sterna hirundo [アジサシ,Common Tern]
ロックオン!!
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Common Tern
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3
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common tern flying by governor's island
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