#sterna

Part of my job while i was interning at refuges on Long Island, NY, was to monitor Least Terns at one particular site, and when I had to go into the colony, they would... SCREAM, DIVE, and PELT ME!!!

Least Tern (Sternula antillarum), EAT A TASTY FISH!!!, family Laridae, order Charadriiformes, DE, USA

photograph by Matt Felperin

Florida - FEED BABBY A TASTY FISH!!!

photograph by Craig O'Neal

Rhode Island - photograph by Jonathan Eckerson

Cape May, NJ - photograph by Daniel Irons

Parent with chicks, Quintana, TX, USA

"But ask the animals what they think—let them teach you; let the birds tell you what's going on"

But still, two hats spoilers below the cut, Stardust's~