Terns in a sentence

Both Arctic terns and common terns had been using Machias Seal Island as a breeding ground for at least 150 years.

In some bird species, albatrosses, greylag geese, gulls and terns, many of the nests are cared for by female-female pairs.

That includes Bainbridge Park, Bridgewater Park, Huntington Park, Manklin Meadows, Robin Hood Park, Swim and Racquet, Terns Landing Park, the Ocean Pines Dog Park, White Horse Park & Trail, and South Gate Pond Trail.

Revolution School focuses on meaningful internships where students, known as “Rev-terns,” partner with local businesses to learn workplace skills and gain valuable experience.

Sometimes these small, agile gulls snatch flying insects in flight, and occasionally they eat the eggs or nestlings of other birds or steal fish from nesting Arctic terns.

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The field is fairly crowded, including Nasdaq-listed firms Viking Therapeutics, Amgen and Terns Pharmaceuticals and German drugmaker Boehringer Ingelheim.

Getting to the island late this year meant researchers couldn't tell if any terns had returned to nest, and they couldn't prevent predators from preying on them if they had returned.

Gulls also steal fish from other birds, like Caspian terns, Parker said.

In 2014, bird-watchers reported seeing only 14 terns in Yingjiang county, Yunnan province, one of the last refuges of the bird in China.

On average, 211 baby terns were born each year, the researchers estimated.

Today, a mated pair of mergansers share this bay of the fjord with splashing Arctic terns, recently arrived from waters off Antarctica.

Make sure you look out for pelicans, pied oystercatchers and fairy and little terns.

There are only 116 breeding pairs of Roseate terns in the UK, restricted to just Coquet Island in England.

This is because, his government has not provided the needed assistance in terns of providing food and the needed basic supplies to the displaced people who are now refugees in the R.C.M Primary School, Kadarko.

Birds Despite massive declines in recent decades, more sooty terns continue to nest on Kiritimati than anywhere else in the world.

Fish in these bays are fed upon by diving terns and pelicans.

It is to be noted that the sooty terns for example could sustain occasional collection of effectively all of a season's eggs (over 10 million), if given sufficient time to recover and if cats are absent.

Pelicans and cormorants join up with terns and oystercatchers to forage for fish and shellfish on the coast.

Species attacked have ranged can be any size available from Aleutian terns ( Onychoprion aleuticus) to trumpeter and whooper swans (Cygnus buccinator & cygnus).