tern

Converse of object

• harry: Two Arctic Skuas harried terns offshore, which was a bit of a surprise to me.
• nest: There are Sandwich, Common and Arctic nesting terns and a thriving colony of common and gray seals.
• breed: Efforts are continuing to attract breeding terns back to Barry.
• include: Wildfowl appear in good numbers at the site in winter and passage birds include various terns, hirundines and waders.
• see: There is a good chance of Little Crake and Barred Warbler here and we should see all three marsh terns.
• roost: Here we came upon a large group of roosting terns.

Adjective modifier

• commic: The sea was scarcely more exciting, with 21 Common Scoter, 12 Manx Shearwaters and 5 commic Terns past the Bill.
• whiskered: Hundreds of whiskered terns were hunting insects in several bays along with a few white winged black terns.
• gull-billed: Gull-billed tern 40+ at TG Caspian tern 5 at TG Collared dove A common bird in villages.
• roseate: Four species of terns on one of the Ternery Pool islands, including two black terns and a roseate tern.
• arctic: My office looks over a gravel beach area which is a nesting ground for arctic terns.
• sooty: Did manage a few interesting seabirds tho including sooty tern and brown booby.

Modifies a noun

• raft: One of the first view from the hide was the arrival of two Common Terns settling on the newly repaired tern raft.
• colony: There is a common tern colony noted at the entrance to Imperial Dock, Leith Docks.
• specie: We also added a couple more tern species to our trip list.
• population: Tern breeding populations can fluctuate among years owing to variations in the proportion of mature birds that attempt to nest.
• passage: Spring and autumn tern passage is always notable, in particular Black Terns which often visit in good numbers.

Noun used with modifier

• pat-: Two adjacent newline s indicate a null pat- tern.
• marsh: Very common from hide at QDL, feeding like marsh terns.
• sandwich: Two sandwich terns were spotted from the track going down to the visitor center roosting with the gulls.