Greater crested tern - caught fish, Waigeo Selatan, Indonesia
These terns were on the hunt all day long along the shallow waters of the beach which expose schools of small fish. They typically do a heads-on vertical dive but sometimes the horizontal slide as seen here works as well.
The greater crested tern is a tern in the family Laridae that nests in dense colonies on coastlines and islands in the tropical and subtropical Old World. Its five subspecies breed in the area from South Africa around the Indian Ocean to the central Pacific and Australia, all populations dispersing widely from the breeding range after nesting.
Similar species: Shorebirds And Allies
By Ferdy Christant
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Uploaded Jul 12, 2024. Captured Oct 26, 2023 10:37 in Saporkren, Pulau Waigeo, Raja Ampat, West Papua 98482, Indonesia.
