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but has a black tip to the red beak, + dark lines along the
toes of its pink legs. The rosy glow on the underparts
was particularly noticeable. There was a strong
tendency for the species to nest in groups by
species. The commons were mainly low
on the island, right down to tide mark, but
were scattered here + there also. The sandwich
tern was nesting on a series of grassy benches on a small
hillside. The roseate terns were mostly on the
crown of the hill. The young sandwich terns
were very lax in feel when you picked them
up + had dark feet. The roseate tern chicks
struggled vigorously + were more prone to burrow
into the vegetation; they had pinkish legs with
dusky clouding; the common terns were
easily distinguished by their very black chins
when new hatched + their flesh-pallid legs + feet
We estimated about 200 prs [pairs] roseate + 100 prs [pairs] of
sandwich terns, possibly 5 or 600 pr [pairs] of common
with perhaps a few arctic among them.
It drizzled on us most of the 2 hours
we were on the island but it was very
good fun anyway. I noted that their rings are
of softer aluminum than ours. They are
enveloped in groups of 20 + no attempt was
made to apply them in numerical sequence
Marginalia: British Bird Rings
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