ARCTIC TERN
(Juvenile)
Sterna paridisaea
T
aken on the National Trust's Farne Islands in Northumberland and I had to endure the constant pecking from this young's protective parents. This species migrates to Antarctic in winter, returning north in spring; widespread in the Arctic in summer.
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