Black Tern

eat the same food as adults, but a mainly the young bird's diet consists of insects. The Black Tern frequently feeds while flying, snatching insects from the air, or picking minnows from the surface of the water. Often you will see Black Terns follow a tractor as the farmer plows his fields. The birds eat the insects the tractor stirred up. Black Terns are very sociable, and in the summer months you can see both the adults and young birds flitting about over the water or wetlands.

The Black Tern has two common calls. One is a brassy clucking that they frequently repeat.

The loss of wetlands affected the habitat of the tern. The result being the birds went elsewhere for more ideal habitat. The Black tern has value and is merits protection. The main reason for the decline in black tern populations when people fill in or ruin wetlands by drainage. It is believe by some scientist that pesticides used in farmer caused a decrease in the birth of young birds. The answer is to protect wetlands used by the Black Terns.

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