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Forster's Tern, fishing
I kept hearing these splashes in the water, but at first only while my back was turned. I thought it was big fish jumping out the water or something. Finally I saw these birds flying along the shoreline, and they would dive down to catch a fish.
The Forster's tern is a member of the gull family, Laridae. It breeds inland in North America and winters south to the Caribbean and northern South America. This species is rare but annual in western Europe, and has wintered in Ireland and Great Britain on a number of occasions. No European tern winters so far north.
Similar species: Shorebirds And Allies
By Meryl Green
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Uploaded Feb 12, 2015. Captured Feb 11, 2015 13:45 in Lake Apopka Loop Trail, Apopka, FL 32703, USA.
