Forster’s Tern In Flight

Forster’s tern is a tern in the family Laridae. The genus name Sterna is derived from Old English “stearn”, “tern”, and forsteri commemorates the naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster. It breeds inland in North America and winters south to the Caribbean and northern Central America. This species breeds in colonies in marshes. It nests in a ground scrape and lays two or more eggs. Like all white terns, it is fiercely defensive of its nest and young. The Forster’s tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, but will also hawk for insects in its breeding marshes. It usually feeds from saline environments in winter, like most Sterna terns. It usually dives directly, and not from the “stepped-hover” favored by the Arctic tern. The offering of fish by the male to the female is part of the courtship display.

Latin: Sterna forsteri

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