Just to add to the Long Island bird reports from today - I went to
Nickerson and spent around 4 and a half hours terning. Highlights were a
second summer type ARCTIC TERN, four ROSEATE TERNs, and a
much-discussed-as-of-late, black billed, black legged, long winged,
speckled forheaded COMMON TERN (
After talking shop about migrating Terns with Michael Farina at Oceanside
Marine Nature Center recently, A concentrated effort to check out Nickerson
looking for all the Terns I have yet to see, Roseate,Gull-billed, Arctic and
Sandwich has been in effect. Upon arriving a few days ago I had a Roy
