The birds of the British Isles and their eggs (1920) (14746579371)

Identifier: birdsofbritish00cowa (find matches)
Title: The birds of the British Isles and their eggs
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coward, T. A. (Thomas Alfred), 1867-1933
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain Birds -- Eggs Great Britain
Publisher: London New York : F. Warne
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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numbers have, on rare occasions, been recorded fromthe east coast, but more than fifty in a party is unusual; inCheshire, twelve and twenty-four are the two largest flocksobserved. The Marsh Terns, as the members of this small group arecalled, are inland rather than sea terns, more frequent overfresh than salt water; even when travelling along the coast ofLancashire they keep to the dunes, feeding over the slacks,rather than the shore. They seldom swim, the webs beingmore deeply indented between the toes than in other terns,the feet better fitted for walking. The Black Tern nests inextensive and treacherous marshes, the nest itself (Plate 113),built of sodden and often rotten vegetation, is frequentlysurrounded by water, placed on a quaking platform of deadaquatic plants. The bird is demonstrative at the nestingcolony; Pennant, writing at the beginning of the nineteenthcentury, says—They are found during spring and summer invast numbers in the fens of Lincolnshire; make an incessant
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