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Trip to Shoal isles. We saw great marine wildlife.
"Found" it near St. Peter Ording
Great flocks of Arctic Terns on the Arnarfjörður fjord in Iceland.
A couple of these were diving into the shallow water, presumably hunting
Walking around a little peninsula in Iceland I got too close to a tern's colony ...
Didn't have the black tipped beak of an common tern, but could very well be one ...
•They eat small fish and marine crustaceans. •It's a strongly migratory ...
Saw thousands of these birds feeding off the biologic and organic material ...
We were sitting in the old port of Reykjavik near the fishing boats when this ...
Woke up to find half a dozen feeding directly in front of my deck, nobody I've ...
Large flock of terns that are part of the reason this tiny island is called ...
Little white bird. Sharp and trim beak and wings.
A small, slender white bird, the Arctic Tern is well known for its long yearly ...
A medium sized bird with grey and white feathers and a black nape and crown. ...
A medium sized bird with grey and white feathers and a black nape and crown. ...
Arctic terns are medium sized marine birds. There is little difference between ...
The longest migration ever recorded in any animal Miniature new transmitters ...
This one was standing guard, but I didn't realize it until I accidentally got ...
Arctic terns are very agile fliers, able to make sharp turns in a second. They ...
They have a length of 33–39 cm (13–15 in) and a wingspan of 76–85 cm (26–30 ...
No bird in Iceland was as graceful and fascinating to watch as the Arctic Tern. ...
Juveniles differ from adults in their black bill and legs, "scaly" appearing ...
plumage is similar, but the crown is whiter and the bills are darker. It is ...
The Arctic tern has the longest migration route of any animal, leaving its ...
This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and ...
The Arctic tern is a medium-sized bird around 33–36 cm (13–14 in) from the tip ...