{"id":8492,"date":"2015-03-19T12:56:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T10:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/?post_type=sight-projects&#038;p=2494"},"modified":"2023-10-05T12:41:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T02:41:46","slug":"whiskered-tern","status":"publish","type":"sight-projects","link":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/projects\/whiskered-tern\/","title":{"rendered":"Whiskered Tern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img  fetchpriority=\"high\"  decoding=\"async\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"683\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5928 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whisker-trn-wings-1024x683.jpg\" ><\/p>\n<p>The Whiskered Tern (Afrikaans name, Witbaardsterretjie) is a lake tern and not a sea tern. We see them at times in the Rietvlei Nature Reserve.<\/p>\n<p><img  decoding=\"async\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"682\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5930 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whis-tern-1024x682.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whis-tern-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whis-tern-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whis-tern-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whis-tern-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whis-tern-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whis-tern.jpg 2009w\" ><\/p>\n<p>The whiskered tern is an intra-African migrant at lakesides and marshes. They are extremely fast flyers, plunging down into the water to catch fish whilst in flight.<\/p>\n<p><img  decoding=\"async\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"1024\"  height=\"683\"  class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5931 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whisk-tern-1024x683.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whisk-tern-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whisk-tern-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whisk-tern-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whisk-tern-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whisk-tern-220x147.jpg 220w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/whisk-tern.jpg 1518w\" ><\/p>\n<p>In breeding colours they are quite beautiful with their black heads, black chests, red beak and silvery wings.<\/p>\n<p><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"1000\"  height=\"667\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5933 pk-lazyload\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\"  data-pk-src=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whiskered-Terns1.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whiskered-Terns1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whiskered-Terns1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whiskered-Terns1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whiskered-Terns1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Whiskered-Terns1-220x147.jpg 220w\" ><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Whiskered Tern (Afrikaans name, Witbaardsterretjie) is a lake tern and not a sea tern. 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In breeding colours they are quite beautiful with their black heads, black chests, red beak and silvery wings.\n","category_list":"","author_info":{"name":"Wildlife Den","url":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/author\/admin\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sight-projects\/8492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sight-projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sight-projects"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"sight-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildlifeden.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sight-categories?post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}