Pair-bonds are retained from one season to the next.* Before laying, the male courtship-feeds the female, presenting small fish to her. Predators or humans entering a colony are repeatedly dived at."Are they here all year round?" the Frau Doktorin wondered.
"Of course they are!" I said, confidently though incorrectly. "There is a season, tern, tern, tern."
* Because one good tern deserves another.
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Before laying, the male courtship-feeds the female, presenting small fish to her...
singing, "Tern around, bright eyes."
Slowly I Terned
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One tried to swipe a piece of sausage from our pic-a-nic basket. It was a tern for the wurst.
Or, to use another tern of phrase:
"Of course they are!" I said, confidently though incorrectly. "They are here for all e ternity." Or at least till the tern of the century.
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