Wildlife : Birdwatching - 1573 🐦

🦉 The common tern (Sterna hirundo)

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

It is known that this bird nests in colonies, and can even coexist with gulls. However, I have never seen this. They live in my city on the very outskirts, where a large river flows. And if you go along this river in summer, you can see how these birds fly along in search of food.

It's funny to watch when this bird saw the prey, it starts to quickly flutter its wings hovering over one place. Then she takes good aim and dives sharply under the water for the fish.
In addition to fish, they also eat large insects and amphibians.