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Terns: The Next Generation
2008.08.12
A fresh juvenile tern with such lovely markings
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Hunkering down in the sand rills on a windy day
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Clamoring for food
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Mom caught a fish!
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After the transfer is made, the young tern needs to figure out how to get this long fish down his gullet.
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At low tide yesterday, we walked to the river mouth and watched several Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) parents working hard for their offspring. Again and again they dove to bring back slender silver fish to the vociferous hungry beaks waiting for them in the sand.
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