Front:
COMMON TERN
AQUES
Male
Female
Back:
Wildlife Post Card Series
Subject 3
RESTORE
PROTECT
CONSERVE
AMERICA'S
COMMON TERN
(Sterna birundo)
WILDLIFE
The flight of the Common Tern is strong,
graceful and erratic. This tern is found
in both the Old and New World, both
from the northern United States and the
Canadian provinces down the Atlantic
and Gulf coasts to Texas and in the Ba-
hamas. In winter it ranges from Florida
RESOURCES
south on the Atlantic side of
South America to Patagonia and
on the Pacific to Ecuador.
It nests preferably on sandy or gravelly
places on islands or on shores where it
frequently makes little nest except a de-
pression in the sand. The spotted eggs
number two or three; both the eggs and
the young are difficult to see on the
sand. This harmless bird eats small fish,
crustaceans, aquatic worms and insects.
NAME
Copyright 1939, National Wildlife Publishing Corp., New York
CITY
PLACE-
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