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one good tern deserves another

Just like the pelicans, we got to band baby terns, too. These are mostly royal terns in these pictures, with a few sandwich terns.

Baby terns wait their "tern" (get it?) to get banded
John shows us how to put the bands on the birds
A veritable sea of baby terns
Sam and a tern
Yours truly and a tern
Tern herding. Kind of like cattle herding, but not really
Aww, how cute
The parents weren't real happy about all of this

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