Birdwatching - 1718 🐦

🦉 The common tern (Sterna hirundo)

📚 Sterna stearn, starn (Old English) tern
📚 hirundo (Latin) swallow

Although these graceful birds are similar in lifestyle to seagulls (I'm talking about wild birds, not those that live in cities), they arrive last, in mid-May, when seagulls can already be seen at the end of April.
In my city, they live mainly near the river flowing along the city. There I often see them flying and looking for fish.

It is very interesting to watch them hunt. The bird flies above the surface of the water and looks for the presence of fish. Seeing the prey, the bird quickly flutters its wings, thereby hovering in one place. And then completely dives under the water.