A Wreck of Seabirds Abundantly Together

Countless Seabirds crumple on the seashore where food is abundant. There are Pelicans, Seagulls, Gaulin and shorebirds all together eating scraps of fish that we're left behind by the fishermen. This video gives you a much closer look at the seabirds as they eat the remains that we're left behind. Then there are the tern birds which are very beautiful in colour.
This medium-sized tern, with its pink-flushed breast and elegant, swallow-like tail streamers, is one of Europe’s rarest seabirds. They nest in colonies, often alongside other terns and black-headed gulls, which helps protect their eggs and chicks from predators. The nest is a shallow scrape on the ground, but they will happily use special nest boxes placed on the floor. A summer visitor, roseate terns are usually the last breeding tern species to return each year, rarely arriving before May.Show more

How to identify

The roseate tern is similar in appearance to common and Arctic terns but with shorter wings and two extremely long tail feathers during the breeding season. In summer plumage, it is a strikingly pale bird, with a black cap, whitish-grey back and wings and white underparts that are tinged pink - in a flock of greyer Arctic and common terns, roseate terns appear to glow white!

The bill is longer than in common and Arctic terns, and is all black in spring, with a scarlet-red base developing in summer. The legs are bright red.