A real tern for the better in Oregon

http://oregonprogress.oregonstate.edu/winter-2011/tern-better

Coastal Art Winner makes a Great Tern

http://www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/poster/mm9/gallery-hm-2009.html

A really bad tern of events in the Gulf

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/[news-gallery]/2010/07/photogalleries/100719-gulf-oil-spill-birds-brown-pelican-environment-chick-pictures/#/gulf-oil-spill-birds-raccoon-island-oiled-terns_23478_600x450.jpg

How sad to see these young terns doomed within days and weeks of their hatching.

Listening to Caspian Terns ... around the World

Xeno-Canto is a community database of shared bird sounds from the whole world and has a nice recordings from the United States, Mexico, Oman, Poland, New Zealand and Australia.

http://www.xeno-canto.org/browse.php?query=caspian+tern

Birder's World has a great tern id article

Large terns

Why bill color remains an important field mark for identifying Caspian and Royal Terns

Contributed by David Allen Sibley

Published: June 25, 2010

Contributing Editor David Allen Sibley discusses wingtip markings, forehead color, and overall shape of Caspian Tern and Royal Tern and tells why bill color remains an important field mark for identifying the species. Accompanying the article are paintings by Sibley showing the head of each species.

http://www.birdersworld.com/Our%20Contributors/ID%20Toolkit/2010/06/Large%20terns.aspx

More turns to see Bellingham terns

http://www.northcascadesaudubon.org/index.php?cates_2010

The Bellingham Herald / Top Stories / Researchers band Caspian terns at Bellingham waterfront to track them

The Bellingham Herald / Top Stories / Researchers band Caspian terns at Bellingham waterfront to track them