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MIXED CASE OF BRITISH STERNIDAE/TERNS
CASE INCLUDES ADULT AND JUVENILE LITTLE TERNS,ROSEATE TERN ADULT AND JUVENILE,COMMON AND ARTIC TERN ADULT AND FIRST YEAR JUVENILES AND MIGRATORY BLACK TERN.
SANDWICH TERN(STERNA SANDVICENSIS)THE LARGEST OF BRITISH TERNS,WINTER PLUMAGE
TERN ON NEST SCENE
SANDWICH TERN IN CLOSE UP
SUPERB CASE WITH CASPIAN TERN(STERNA CASPIA)AN EXTREMELY RARE MIGRANT TO BRITAIN AND A MUCH RARER TAXIDERMY SPECIMEN THIS ONE IN CASE WITH JUVENILE KITTIWAKE
ARTIC TERN(STERNA PARADISAEA)SLIGHTLY SMALLER THAN COMMON TERN,ONE OF THE GREAT MIGRATORY SPECIES OF THE ANIMAL WORLD,LEAVES THE UK AND ARTIC CIRCLE FOR ANTARTICA VIA AFRICA AFTER BREEDING
TERN ON NEST SCENE IN HUGE CASE OF SEA-TERNS
JUVENILE ARTIC TERN(STERNA PARADISAEA)FLY AT 21-24 DAYS,FED BY PARENTS FOR TWO MONTHS,MIGRATE AND REMAIN IN SOTHERN HEMISPHERE FOR TWO YEARS BEFORE RETURNING TO BREED
LITTLE TERN(STERNA ALBIFRONS)LITTLE OR LEAST TERN,SMALLEST OF BRITISH BREEDING TERNS,MIGRATORY SPENDING THE WINTER MONTHS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE AND AFRICA.
 
LITTLE TERN
BLACK TERN(CHLIDONIAS NIGER)MIGRATORY VISITOR ON PASSAGE TO UK,A FEW PAIRS HAVE BRED,BUT ONLY ON EXTREMELY RARE OCCASIONS,BREEDS FROM DENMARK DOWN TO SPAIN
JUVENILE BLACK TERN(CHLIDONIAS NIGER)MIGRATORY MARSH TERN SEEN ON PASSAGE REGULARLY IN BRITAIN,BUT HAS NESTED,PERHAPS A NEW BREEDING COLONY IN THE UK IN YEARS TO COME,UNLIKE MOST TERNS THE BLACK MARSH TERN BUILD A FLOATING PLATFORM OF WATERSIDE VEGETATION SIMILAR TO A LITTLE GREBES NEST
PAIR OF ARTIC TERNS(STERNA PARADISAEA)HIGHLY MIGRATORY TEWRN COVERING GLOBAL DISTANCES TWICE PER YEAR,FROM ARTIV AND BRTISH NESTING COLONIES,SOUTH TO THE ANTARTIC,RECENT DECLINES DUE TO SAND EEL NUMBERS DWINDLING,
SANDWICH TERN IN CLOSE UP(STERNA SANDVICENSIS)
ROSEATE TERN ABOVE,WINTER PLUMAGE COMMON TERN BELOW,
CASED SANDWICH TERN
PAIR OF COMMON TERNS
BLACK HEADED GULL(LARUS RIBUNDUS)ON NEST SCENE,BRITAINS SMALLEST GULL,LOSES THE BLACK HEAD IN WINTER,NESTS IN LARGE COLONIES.
GREAT-BLACK BACKED GULL BY A.C.FOOT OF BATH
HERRING GULL(LARUS ARGENTATUS)THE POPULAR SEAGULL OF COASTAL BRITAIN,NOISY AND BOLD,OFTEN ROBBING HUMANS OF THEIR FISH AND CHIPS,A BIRD THAT LIKE HUMANS SEEMS TO GET BIGGER AND FATTER IN ITS EVOLUTION,VICTORIAN TAXIDERMY GULLS ARE MUCH SMALLER THAN THE MODERN FAST FOOS GULLS.
CASE OF WINTER AND JUVENILE PLUMAGE GULLS AND KITTIWAKES
WINTER PLUMAGE BLACK-HEADED GULL(LARUS RIBUNDIS)
MEDITERRANEAN GULL(LARUS MELANOCEPHALUS)FORMERLY SUFFERED A MAJOR DECLINE IN NUMBERS,BUT HAS STAGED A REMARKABLE RECOVERY,FIRSTLY IN BRITAIN AS A NON BREEDING BIRD IN BRITAIN,BUT NOW NESTS IN BLACK HEADED GULL COLONIES IN CHANNEL/NORTH SEA COUNTIES.
BONAPARTS GULL,(LARUS PHILADELPHIA)RARE VISTITOR FROM NORTH AMERICA
CASE OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS WHICH WAS DISMANTLED,AS YOU CAN SEE THE BONAPARTES GULLABOVE THAT I PURCHASED SEPERATELY WAS FROM THIS CASE,ANOTHER PIECE OF HISTORY RUINED
KITTIWAKE(RISSA TRIOACTYLA)PERSECUTED FOR EGGS AND MEAT FOR FOOD IN THE 19TH CENTURY,THEN AFTER A STEADY RISE IN POPULATION THROUGHOUT THE 20TH CENTURY,THIS IS ONE OF THE BIRDS THAT WILL SUFFER FROM OVERFISHING IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC BREEDING AND WINTERING GROUNDS,VIA A HUGE REDUCTION IN SAND EEL NUMBERS.
KITTIWAKE(RISSA TRIDACACTYLA)FROM VICTORIAN CASE,NOW IN RAPID DECLINE DUE TO DEPLETION OF FISH STOCKS AND MARINE POLLUTION.
KITTIWAKE CASED
CASE OF GULLS AND A ARTIC SKUA
NOT SURE OF THIS GULL POSS GLAUCOUS GULL
HERRING GULL JUVENILE
JUVENILE KITTIWAKE(RISSAA TRIOACTYLA)OFTEN CONFUSED WITH WINTER PLUMAGE BLACK HEADED GULLS.
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL(LARUS MARINUS)BRITAINS LARGEST GULL,BREEDING ON ROCKY COASTS AND HEADLANDS,CLOSE TO EXTINCTION IN 18TH CENTURY BUT RECOVERED WITH THE MASS INCREASE OF BY PRODUCTS OF UK FISHING INDUSTRY.POPULATION INCREASES IN WINTERS WITH BIRDS FROM NORWEGIAN COAST MIGRATING TO OUR SHORES.
TWO JUVENILE LESSER BLACK BACKED GULLS BY WHENLOCK OF BOLTON.
ADULT HERRING GULL IN CASE OF VICTORIAN SEABIRDS,ABOUT TWO THIRDS THE SIZE OF A MODERN SEAGULL SCAVENGER FATTENED UP ON REFUSE TIPS AND SEASIDE SCRAPS EATEN
RING-BILLED GULL(LARUS DELAWARENSIS),MIGRATORY NORTH AMERICAN GULL IN WINTER PLUMAGE
ARTIC/RITCHARDSONS SKUA(STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS)THE SMALLER OF OUR TWO BREEDING SKUAS,AT THE LIMIT OF ITS SOUTHERN RANGE,BREEDING ON COASTAL MOORLAND AND ISLANDS,VERY AGGRESSIVE AT NEST SITE,ATTACKING PREDATORS INCLUDING HUMAN INTRUDERS,NUMBERS ARE LINKED TO THE SUCCES OF BREEDING SEABIRDS,WHICH THEY CHASE,FORCING THEM TO DROP OR DISGORGE THEIR OWN FOOD,WILL ALSO TAKE EGGS,CHICKS FROM NESTS AND CATCH SMALL RODENTS,IE LEMMINGS.
RITCHARDSONS SKUA ?
CASE OF J GARDNER COMMON GULL(LARUS CANUS)BLACK-HEADED GULL(LARUS RIDIBUNDUS)IN WINTER PLIMAGES AND COMMON SNIPE
CASE OF GARDNER OF STROUD GULLS COMMON,BLACK HEADED GULL AND MEDITEREANEAN GULL,
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL(LARUS MARUINUS)LARGEST OF BRITISH GULLS AT A WHOPPING 78CM,CLOSE TO EXTINCTION IN 18TH CENTURY,STARTED TO INCREASE FROM 1880 LARGELEY DUE TO A MAJOR INCREASE IN THE COMMERCIAL FISHING MARKET,NOW AROUND 20 THOUSAND PAIRS.
ARTIC SKUA FORMERLEY IN THE ANDY HENRY COLLECTION
POMERINE SKUA JUVENILE
CASPIAN TERN SUPERB RARITY
RING-BILLED GULL AMERICAN MIGRANT IN AUTUMN PLUMAGE
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