Little Tern - Dvergterne
- Sterna
albifrons Dværgterne
- Småtärna - Pikkutiira - Dwergstern -
Zwergseeschwalbe - Sterne naine - Charrancito Común
- Riuttatiira
Little
Tern is a bird of the coast I grew up on in north Northumberland. This
was before I had a camera and although I still see them back on the
home turf it is not often I get to photograph them.
Imagine my surprise when shortly after landing in Iceland almost the
first bird I saw was a Little Tern!! Fourth for Iceland (third record).
Amazingly this bird was also colour ringed - seems like it came from an
Irish colour ringing scheme. I took a few shots and informed Birding Iceland, before we left the first three twitchers arrived:)
A record flight shot just to show it was not anything (even) more
exciting than Little Tern - the white rump confirms that this was not
Least Tern:)
Little Terns are a species that breeds along the North Northumberland
coast - a number of colonies are closely gaurded to protect them from foxes and disturbance from people.
Pictures taken at Gardur, Iceland, May 2022
For more information on birding Iceland see this link.
