What type of birds are terns?
Q: What type of birds are terns?
A: Terns are seabirds in the family Laridae.
Q: Where are terns usually found?
A: Terns are normally found near the sea, rivers, or wetlands.
Q: What is the physical appearance of terns?
A: Terns are slender, lightly built birds with long, forked tails, narrow wings, long bills, and short legs. Most species are pale grey above and white below, with a contrasting black cap to the head, but some have dark plumage for part of the year.
Q: How do terns breed and where do they lay their eggs?
A: Terns breed in noisy colonies and lay their eggs on bare ground with little or no nest material. Marsh terns make floating nests from the vegetation in their wetland habitats, and a few species build simple nests in trees, on cliffs or in crevices.
Q: What do most species of terns eat?
A: Most species of terns feed on fish caught by diving from flight.
Q: Do all tern species migrate?
A: Many terns are long-distance migrants, but not all tern species migrate.
Q: Why is the Arctic tern special?
A: The Arctic tern may see more daylight in a year than any other animal.
