#Common Tern

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Common Tern with its tiny catch! In Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3.

[michaelnordeman]

A romantic dinner, the Common tern/fisktärna way. Gysinge, Gästrikland, Sweden (May 17, 2024).

[kavohh707]

Some more pictures from the common terns with their cute chicks. They can be quite noisy birds and it looks like one of the little ones already practices.

[besidethepath]

Fish for the girl

[birdblues]

Common Tern

[sugiichi]

Sterna hirundo [アジサシ,Common Tern]

干潟にはアジサシもたくさん来てました。

他のアジサシが混じってないか探してみましたが、残念ながら混じってませんでした。

[tinylongwing]

I love the bird banding photos where you’re holding their feet and they’re either like 😠 or shocked pikachu

Anyway 🎃 Twick or Tweet 🎃

Well then I have good news for you! This Common Tern chick banded in Maryland as part of an experimental nesting platform project is an excellent example of a 😠face

But of course it was put right back down after banding - it's great to see that they use these artificial platforms, which help to make up for centuries of dredging in the bay to provide access for ships but remove the sandbars and gravel beds that the species normally would be nesting on!

[alonglistofbirds]

[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

[riso-wizo]

[admiralgiggles]

One good tern deserves another. 🤭

[photo-art-lady]

Common Tern Playing With Water ~ Bird Photography By Patricia Ware ~ Wildlife Photography

[brooklynbridgebirds]

Common Tern Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 3

[meklarian]

Common Tern, juvenile (I think?) San Joaquin Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary Irvine, California, USA July, 2019

(more terns here)

[kavohh707]

Common Terns with their very well camouflaged chicks. But while they are very well hidden by their plumage, after being fed they went to hide in the hollow tree trunk.

[besidethepath]

The elegance of the common tern

[my-friend-meowth]

Turku

Gigantic common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in Aurajoki

We saw many common terns (Sterna hirundo)