. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. / COMMON TERN ON NEST WITH YOUNG IN BACKGROUND. NOTE LONG WINGS AND THE COMPARATIVELY SHORT TAIL Photographed by Edward Howe Forbush being at Muskeget and Chatham. At Chatham and Muskeget there was great mortality among the young birds, and at Chatham many adult birds were killed by rats. Elsewhere they do not seem to be increasing now. A small number of Arctic Terns bred at several of the colonies last year. This year only one colony was located—that on the north beach at Chatham, which was wiped out. It was first swept by a high tide and later raided b
. Bird lore. Birds; Birds; Ornithology. / COMMON TERN ON NEST WITH YOUNG IN BACKGROUND. NOTE LONG WINGS AND THE COMPARATIVELY SHORT TAIL Photographed by Edward Howe Forbush being at Muskeget and Chatham. At Chatham and Muskeget there was great mortality among the young birds, and at Chatham many adult birds were killed by rats. Elsewhere they do not seem to be increasing now. A small number of Arctic Terns bred at several of the colonies last year. This year only one colony was located—that on the north beach at Chatham, which was wiped out. It was first swept by a high tide and later raided by cats and skunks, which destroyed both eggs and young and drove the parent birds away. Only a few pairs were known to breed anywhere on the Massa- chusetts coast this year. Very few occupied nests of Least Terns were noted. On the south shore of Martha's Vineyard, where for several years about 200 Terns of this species have bred, less than 20 nests were reported. There were a few on Monomoy, and a small number bred at other places on Cape Cod and on the mainland. Not one was found on Nantucket where they formerly were reported. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America; National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals; National Audubon Society. New York City : Macmillan Co.
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