River Tern (Juvenile)

Sterna aurantia

Among the first arrivals to the Bhadra Reservoir. Soon the islands there will be teeming with terns.

Photographed at: River Tern Lodge, Chickmagaluru, Karnataka on 2016-05-21

Regular features in the water bodies of the Indian subcontinent.

Family: Sternidae

Name in Kannada: ನದಿ ರೀವ

Other Pictures of River Tern

(Adult (in flight))

Among the first arrivals to the Bhadra Reservoir. Soon the islands there will be teeming with terns.

Tern,Among the first arrivals to the Bhadra Reservoir. Soon the islands there will be teeming with terns.

(Adult)

Regular features in the water bodies of the Indian subcontinent.

Tern,Regular features in the water bodies of the Indian subcontinent.