Photograph by Marschal Fazio.
Photography contest, Honorable Mention.
Sterna antillarum browni -- California least tern. Mr. Fazio writes, "This species is listed as endangered under the Federal Endangered Species Act. It nests along the California coast on sandy shorelines; as humans have encroached, the tern has lost much of its nesting habitat and now nests in overcrowded sites or mudflats, making them more prone to predation."
13 Comments
https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 10 February 2014
Let's hope its numbers don't take a tern for the worse.
KlausH · 10 February 2014
Browni???? Is that part of the "No Tern left unstoned" joke?
Henry J · 10 February 2014
Let us tern this discussion around...
Matt Young · 10 February 2014
I am sorry, but you made me do it:
To tell the Turnip from the Tern,
A thing which everyone should learn,
Observe the Tern up in the air,
See how he turns,--and now compare
Him with this inert vegetable,
Who thus to turn is quite unable,
For he is rooted to the spot,
While as we see the Tern is not:
He is not always doomed to be
Thus bound to earth e-_tern_-ally,
For "Cooked to a turn" may be inferred,
To change the Turnip to the Bird.
Observe the Turnip in the pot.
The Tern is glad that he is not!
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https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 10 February 2014
Sharp!
Especially that front part.
Glen Davidson
ksplawn · 10 February 2014
Let's hope its numbers don't take a tern for the worse.
KlausH · 10 February 2014
Browni????
Is that part of the "No Tern left unstoned" joke?
Henry J · 10 February 2014
Let us tern this discussion around...
Matt Young · 10 February 2014
https://me.yahoo.com/a/JxVN0eQFqtmgoY7wC1cZM44ET_iAanxHQmLgYgX_Zhn8#57cad · 10 February 2014
One good tern deserves another.
That's why they pair...
Glen Davidson
Just Bob · 11 February 2014
This has taken a tern for the worse.
Just Bob · 11 February 2014
And thanks to evolution, someday the worm could tern!
Henry J · 11 February 2014
Let us all tern over a new leaf!
After all, tern about is fowl play. Er, I mean, fair.
Tristan Miller · 12 February 2014
Dave Luckett · 12 February 2014
Terns, it is true, have little meat on them, but you can still make a very tasty dish of a tern. Do you not recall the recipe:
"For every thin tern, tern, tern, there is a seasoning..."
Just Bob · 13 February 2014
"For every thin tern, tern, tern, there is a seasoning, tern, tern, tern, and some thyme for every porpoise or other leaven."
Henry J · 13 February 2014
All of this reminds me of that Carol Burnett skit: "As the Stomach terns... "