Baby, endangered, Little Terns at school

The last two years has seen Little Terns starting to use Deeban Spit but this year we were lucky to host two adult birds with two fledglings.

The parents were trying to teach the fledglings how to fish. The parents would catch a fish and then repeatedly fly over the fledglings that were resting on the beach trying the encourage the fledglings to follow. Once the fledglings did fly after the parent bird (still with fish in beak) the parent would dive towards the water (guessing simulating catching fish) and then fly back to the beach. The fledgling would then land along behind and be fed. The fledgling made a heck of a lot of noise (as baby birds do) when following along with the parent.bird.

Pretty special that our tidal flats are now being used as training grounds for the endangered little terns.