Sterna forsteri
Forster’s Terns are medium sized terns with white underparts and pale gray upperparts, short red legs, thin, orange bills with black tips and a black cap in breeding plumage.
Title: Double-crested Cormorant and Forster’s Terns
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 4/22/2021
Title: Immature Forster’s Tern after dropping its tadpole prey
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/19/2019
Title: Immature Forster’s Tern with a small fish
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/19/2019
Title: Young Forster’s Tern searching for prey
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/19/2019
Title: Immature Forster’s Tern flying over a pond
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/19/2019
Title: Immature Forster’s Tern hunting for prey
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 9/19/2019
Title: Forster’s Tern hovering over the marsh at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/2/2019
Title: Forster’s Tern feeding its young who is perched on a dead coot
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 10/3/2017
Title: Juvenile Forster’s Tern in flight
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/27/2017
Title: Forster’s Tern lifting off from water with prey
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2017
Title: Forster’s Tern after successful dive for prey
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2017
Title: Nonbreeding adult Forster’s Tern in flight with prey
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 8/24/2017
Title: Forster’s Tern in breeding plumage resting on a log
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Title: Forster’s Tern on a log
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2017
Title: Hovering, hunting Forster’s Tern in breeding plumage
Location: Bear River Migratory Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/29/2015
Title: Forster’s Tern hovering over prey
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/29/2015
Title: Hovering Forster’s Tern
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 8/3/2014
Title: Forster’s Tern in breeding plumage in flight over Bear River NWR
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/23/2013
Title: A Forster’s Tern in a Canada Goose nest
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 6/8/2012
Title: Forster’s Tern in a dive over a Bear River wetland
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/9/2012
Title: Forster’s Tern hovering over a marsh
Location: Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, Juab County, Utah
Date: 5/25/2011
Title: Forster’s Tern mated pair on nest
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/30/2010
Title: Forster’s Tern in breeding plumage on nest
Location: Bear River National Wildlife Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 5/30/2010
Title: Forster’s Tern in early morning light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 2/13/2009
Title: Nonbreeding Forster’s Tern on the Gulf coast
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 2/13/2009
Title: Forster’s Tern in flight over the Gulf
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 1/6/2009
Title: An elegant Forster’s Tern in flight
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 1/6/2009
Title: Forster’s Tern in front of a dark colored wave
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 10/10/2008