This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
The elegant tern, with its pointy wings and long orange bill, normally arrives at the reserve’s grounds in April or May for the beginning of its reproductive cycle, Horn said. After the birds mate, they build a nest in the sand and the females usually lay one egg, sometimes two. After the egg hatches, it can take weeks before the young chick is ready to fly away with its parents, Horn said.