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I got the photo series started a little late, but I am fairly certain the little morsel started with the right hand tern and have photo proof it ended up with the left hand bird, who seemed to swallow and then fly off.
The smallest of the World's Terns, this species was formerly placed in the genus "Sterna." They are a common summer resident to the Texas Coast. This is the nominate race. Another subspecies "S. a. athalassos" breeds in the interior and is endangered. However geographic variation in this...
Passed some Least Tern nesting colonies in Mississippi and had a couple parents irate at me for being in the same county as their beach. Of course I-90 was literally five feet from me so I dunno what they was so mad about!
Least Tern.
Their numbers are slowly getting up there but it is considered a decreasing population. Adult Description
Small tern. During breeding, black cap ending at white forehead. Short white eyestripe. Bill yellow with black tip. Back light gray. Underside white. Black leading edge to...
Least Tern
According to the EOL: (End of Life)
The following institutions participate in EOL:
Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
Marine Biological Laboratory
New Library of Alexandria
As a change from my usual garden birds, thought I'd post this old "record shot". Image quality isn't brilliant(!) but it's the only time I've photographed a bird which was not only a first for Britain but the entire Western Palearctic. It's a very heavy crop from a scanned transparency and was...
A couple of years ago their numbers were on the rise but now they are decreasing again. They are, however, considered "Least concern" Can't figure that one out.
Least Tern (Sternula antillarum subsp. athalassos) Boliver Flats Shorebird Sanctuary, Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston County, Texas, USA. Gulf Coast Prairies and Marshes Vegetational Area. Beach, mud flats, and coastal marsh. Mouth of Galveston Bay at the Gulf of Mexico.