Water & shore birds
Common Tern
Sterna hirundo
“The easiest way to tell the difference between Roseate and Common Terns during breeding season is to look at the terns bill.”
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Aug 12, 2020
Other birds spotted while in Two Lights include Common Terns, Common Eiders, Ring-billed and Great-black backed Gulls, a Least Sandpiper fly through, a single Osprey and several Gray Catbirds.
Jun 2, 2021
A flock of twenty or more Common Terns in Pond Cove on May 20, Cedar Waxwings appearing locally throughout Cape starting on May 21 and a Indigo Bunting and Prothonotary Warbler in Hinckley Park on May 22.
Jul 21, 2021
The easiest way to tell the difference between Roseate and Common Terns during breeding season is to look at the terns bill.