Common Terns on Brownsea Island

Charadriiformes

Place: Brownsea Island, Dorset
Date: 25 July 2025.

Place: Brownsea Island, Dorset
Date: 26 July 2025.

Place: Brownsea Island, Dorset
Date: 27 July 2025.

[Sterna hirundo, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common tern]

The sound of the common tern (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ross Ahmed)

Distribution and sightings of the common tern across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).