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Terns in Flight-2

Great Gull Island is also home to a colony of Roseate Terns.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

Common Tern Sterna hirundo, Great Gull Island, New York, USA

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

Roseate Tern at Great Gull Island, NY. Their bills are mostly black, while Common Tern bills are mostly orange.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

A color banded gray catbird.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

Terns incubate their eggs for about 23 days.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

Common terns nest all over the island where the vegetation is not too dense.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

A volunteer checks the band number of a roseate tern.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

Over the course of the summer, more than 50 people arrive at the island to volunteer their time working with birds.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

Thacher Island National Wildlife Refuge, MA. Credit: Matt Poole/USFWS

Metinic Island, Maine Coastal Islands NWR. Summer with the Seabirds blog: http://mainecoastalislands.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/metinic-island-a-glimpse-into-our-nesting-season/
Credit: Brette Soucie

Common terns generally lay one to three eggs. This extremely large clutch may actually be from two nests.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

This roseate tern is color banded, with a silver steel U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service band on the left leg and a gray plastic color band on the right leg.

Credit: Sarah Nystrom

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