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Least terns and snowy plovers nesting at Batiquitos Lagoon. Wintering locations are actually unknown, but suspected to include the South American Pacific Coast. The California least tern arrives at its breeding grounds in late April. Courtship typically takes place removed from the nesting colony site, usually on an exposed tidal flat or beach ...
The least tern arrives at its breeding grounds in late April. The breeding colonies are not dense and may appear along either marine or estuarine shores, or on sandbar islands in large rivers, or in areas free from humans or predators. Courtship typically takes place removed from the nesting colony site, usually on an exposed tidal flat or ...
Area: 35,000 acres (140,000,000 m 2) ... Least tern. Is the smallest of the American terns and is found nesting on sandy shores of the southern parts of the United ...
It is a nesting, feeding and cover area for bird and fish including the endangered light-footed clapper rails and Belding's Savannah sparrow. A study on light-footed clapper rail was conducted since 1979. One of the study area is in the salt marsh in Anaheim Bay, the coastal salt marsh located in Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge.
Least terns nest on the refuge in several locations. In the mid-1980s, common terns nested in the salt marsh on the Lower Wells and Little River divisions. Roseate terns (Sterna dougallii) nested on West Goose Rocks Island in 1985, and lately, have been observed along Crescent Surf Beach in the Upper Wells Division. In 2003, Crescent Surf Beach ...
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The refuge is a nesting area for brown pelicans, American white pelicans, great egrets, laughing gulls, Sandwich terns, least terns, American oystercatchers, reddish egrets, roseate spoonbills, snowy egrets, tricolored herons and diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin).
The game commission believes since 2012, 21 common tern nests have been started there but failed. Brian Whipkey is the outdoors columnist for USA TODAY Network sites in Pennsylvania.