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National Geographic : 1919 Jul
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©William Lovell Finley A FAMILY ROW: CASPIAN TERNS Myriads of the various varieties of these beautiful birds have been ruthlessly slaughtered in the past, but laws now protect them quite generally. They frequent low sandy shores, live together in colonies near the water and build their nests byscraping outaslight hollow in the sand, were they lay from two to four eggs. Their raucous voices in chorus produce adeafening dinand one canalmost hear the "creakee-creakee" issuing from the widely opened bills of the argumentative trio pictured above.
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