Front:
COMMON TERN
Male
AQUES
Female
Back:
Subject 3
RESTORE
PROTECT. CONSERNE
1754
WORK LIKE A BEAVER FOR RESTORATION
AMERICA'S
RESOURCES
WILDLIFE
COMMON TERN
south on the Atlantic side of
(Sterna birundo)
South America to Patagonia and
on the Pacific to Ecuador.
The flight of the Common Tern is strong, It nests preferably on sandy or gravelly
graceful and erratic. This tern is found places on islands or on shores where it
in both the Old and New World, both frequently makes little nest except a de-
from the northern United States and the number two or three; both the eggs and
Canadian provinces down the Atlantic the young are difficult to see on the
and Gulf coasts to Texas and in the Ba- sand. This harmless bird eats small fish,
hamas. In winter it ranges from Florida crustaceans, aquatic worms and insects.
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