I obtained their eggs, and those of the Lesser Tern (S.
The larger Gull-billed Tern (Sterna anglica) breeds only on the islets of the marisma.
The larger Gull-billed Tern (Sterna anglica) is also common in summer in the marisma, where we have taken the eggs of all four species.
The Whiskered Tern (Hydrochelidon hybrida) came in swarms during the first days of April, followed on the 13th by the Lesser Tern, and at the end of the month by H.
The eggs of the Black Tern are much smaller, and of a rich liver-brown, heavily blotched with black.
All these lay three eggs, those of the Whiskered Tern mostly greenish with black spots, a few olive-brown.
And down below the crabs crawled about, and the fishes shot hither and thither; and over the surface of the water, from reef to reef and island to island, the tern and sea-gulls skimmed and swooped about.
The Artist in some mysterious way had learned the secret of Tern Island, one of the few places on the New Jersey coast where the Wilson tern still nests.
The young tern was downy like a duckling, and had tiny red feet and a pink beak tipped with black.
The Arctic Tern (Sterna arctica) is a native of the Arctic Circle, and regularly visits the sea-coast of the north of France.
The Silver-winged Tern (Sterna leucoptera) inhabits the bays and gulfs of the Mediterranean, and is only an accidental visitor to the north of France.
The Tern (Sterna hirundo) is very common in France, on the shores of the Atlantic, and in the Mediterranean.
The Gull-billed Tern of Colonel Montagu conducts us from these genera to the groups which compose the Linnaean genus Larus--now divided into two genera, Lestris and Larus.
Of birds the smaller Maina, common house Sparrow, blue Jay, and the larger grey Tern occur.
The great Caspian Tern is the largest of the family, its wings, when extended, measuring from fifty to fifty-five inches in length.
A young Herring Gull, a Petrel, or a Ternthus surprised will beat up against the wind with powerful flight.
Even the beautiful and graceful little Tern (Sterna Minuta) more than once found his way here; and on the second occasion saved his own life by the confidence which he seemed to repose in man.
I have found almost invariably that the Common Ternhabitually lays its eggs farther from the water than the Arctic Tern, and always prefers to conceal them amongst vegetation of some kind.
The Arctic Tern is par excellence the Tern of our northern coasts, say from the Farne Islands and Lancashire onwards to the Orkneys and the Shetlands.
This Ternis seldom or never seen at any distance from the sea.
No Tern dives, and it is certainly exceptional for the bird completely to immerse itself; usually it flutters on the surface for a moment, then rises again.
The flight of the Common Tern is exceedingly buoyant and graceful, the long slender wings and acutely forked tail assisting greatly in the general effect.
Tern breed in its early haunts on the Kentish coast; it has disappeared from there, as it has from many another locality, without hope of return.
Save on passage, this Tern is seldom seen far from the vicinity of its nest colony.
The Black Tern formerly bred commonly in our marshes and fens, but has long ceased to do so.
There can be no doubt that this Tern is slowly becoming rarer, and in view of this fact I do not feel justified in assisting its extermination, by naming a single locality known to me where it now breeds.
The usual call-note of the Sandwich Tern is a somewhat shrill scream.
Another peculiarity is that the eggs are far more generally laid nearer to the water; and this applies not only to the Farne Islands, but to every breeding place of this Tern that I have visited.
This pretty Tern may be distinguished from its near ally, the Common Tern (which it closely resembles in size and general appearance), by its grayer under parts and perceptibly longer outermost tail feathers.
In the robber-tern this instinct has proceeded further, so that the animal gains its subsistence entirely by plunder of other terns.
The tern is a very pretty bird with light grey plumage, a black head and red beak and feet.
Each tern is occupied with a distinct subject, which I indicate by headings, viz.
They are marked off by the rimes; the first tern ends with seyne, l.
Each Tern has its own subject, quite separate from the rest.
The first Ternexpresses his Devotion to his love's service.
Udolpho was a sort of hunting lodge or country club near Tern Creek and an old colonial church, so old that it bore the royal arms upon a shield still preserved as a sign of its colonial origin.
The Redhead, Wilson Phalarope, and Black Tern are limnic species, perhaps limited southerly by high summer temperatures; the three species are entirely marginal anywhere in Kansas.
This tern is a local summer resident in marshes and along streams in central and western Kansas.
But with the Tern no such excuse exists, and the woman who places its always disgustingly mutilated body on her bonnet, does so in deliberate defiance of the laws of humanity and good taste.
The Passing of the Tern The surprising results which may follow Fashion's demand for a certain kind of bird have never been more clearly shown than in the case of the Terns or Sea Swallows of our Atlantic coasts.
Under this whipping is the bill of a tern as a charm for good luck.
Perhaps the idea of this charm is that the spear should plunge down upon the seal with as sure an aim as the tern does upon its prey.
Professor Ansted includes the Lesser Tern in his list, but that may have been a mistake, as my skin of a young Black Tern was sent to me for a Lesser Tern.
The Black Tern is by no means a common visitant to the Islands, and only makes its appearance in the autumn, and then the generality of those that occur are young birds of the year.
The Common Tern seemed to be the only species of Tern breeding on the rocks; we certainly saw nothing else, and no Common Terns even, except on the one island on which we found the eggs.
The Arctic Tern is not included in Professor Ansted's list, and there is no specimen at present in the Museum.
The Black Tern is not included in Professor Ansted's list, and there is no specimen in the Museum.
The Common Tern is a regular but not numerous spring and autumn visitant to the Islands, some remaining to breed.
Professor Ansted includes the Common Ternin his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey.
This is a black-headed Tern with a blood-red bill, which is found abundantly on the coast of Patagonia, and extends up the Atlantic coast to Rio.
This large Ternseems to occur on the Rio Parana, according to Azara.
The Common Tern or Sea Swallow Length thirteen to sixteen inches, according to the length of the tail, which is deeply forked with slender outside feathers, like a Barn Swallow's.
The Tern half folds his long pointed wings, and darts down like lightning; in a second he is up in the air again dashing off with capricious flight, holding his beak to his breast as the Woodcock does.
She sails for Sunken Harbor And ports of yester year; The tern are shrilling in the lift, The low wind-gates are clear.
Off the freshening sea to windward, Is it a whitetern I hear Shrilling in the gusty weather Where the far sea-line is clear?
But a more interesting experience was in store for me, which brought still more forcibly to my mind that incident with the wounded tern to which I have before alluded.
A tern that either eludes or is not molested by a skua at sea, flies home with its fish, to feed its young.
These are those skuas who elect to take their chances at sea, and whenever a tern rises after making his plunge, with a fish in his bill, they rise also and pursue him.
We found lots of little tern and terns' eggs, lying out on the bare rock with no nest at all.
A dead Arctic tern was on the beach only 90 feet away and visible to the gyrfalcon.
One nest and that of an Arctic tern were approximately 30 feet apart on an island in the center of the lake.
Before the pools disappeared, the terncaptured all these fish.
This tern dove at us twice and then returned to the river valley and its nest some 800 feet away.
The Sabine's gull and Arctic tern are compatible and nest within 20 feet of each other.
As food was plentiful, available nesting sites may have governed the size of the tern population.
The nest was within 30 feet of a nest of a red-throated loon, which was accepted in the territory of the tern without molestation.
Kaolak River, we heard a ptarmigan joining an Arctic tern and several sandpipers in protest to a passing red fox.
The loons arrived and departed from the lake without molestation by the terns, but whenever we approached the lake a tern would fly 300 feet out on the lake to meet us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tern" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: magpie; ternary; treble; triple; triplex; triplicate
