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White tern, beautiful white bird of Polynesia, Tahiti, Gygis alba, peace symbol

$Western Cattle Egret.\nThe western cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. Most taxonomic authorities lump this species and the eastern cattle egret together (called the cattle egret), but some (including the International Ornithologists' Union) separate them. Despite the similarities in plumage to the egrets of the genus Egretta, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.\n\nIt is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Western cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.\n\nThe adult cattle egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wider human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes ticks and flies from cattle and consumes them. This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases.$

The pied imperial pigeon bird is rest in the garden

An Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) on a perch south of Anchorage Alaska. The Arctic Tern breeds in the arctic regions around the world and winters in the Antarctic, making at least a 19,000 km (12,000 mi) flight between the two twice a year, mostly over open ocean; thus, this bird has the longest migration and sees more daylight than any animal on earth.

Portrait view of a White tern (Gygis alba) at Cousin island, Seychelles

The White Tern (Gygis alba) is a small seabird found across the tropical oceans of the world. Other names for the species include Angel Tern and White Noddy. Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, Midway Island, Midway Atoll, Hawaiian Islands. With fish in its beak. Food.

Beautiful blue sky and flying white bird.

Fairy Tern bird in a tree on Green Mountain on the tropical British Overseas Territory of Ascension Island in the South Atlantic

Arctic tern on the Farne Islands. It is sitting on its nest, a shallow scraping in the gravel. Each nest on the island has a numbered rock beside it for recording purposes.

$White Tern or Fairy Tern (Gygis alba) at Cousin Island, Seychelles, Indian Ocean, Africa\n.$

Seagulls fly low amidst the roar of the waves

$The swallow-tailed gull (Creagrus furcatus) is an equatorial seabird in the gull family, Laridae. The main breeding location is in the Galápagos Islands, particularly the rocky shores and cliffs of Hood, Tower and Wolf Islands. Tower Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. \tCharadriiformes. On nest with egg.$

White Tern (Gygis alba), Cousin Island, Seychelles, Indian Ocean

A white-browed sparrow weaverbird enters its nest in Kenya.

Snow petrel in the nest among rocks on the Antarctic island.

Sandwich tern flying over Inner Farne in the Farne islands, Northumberland. The tern has a sand eel in its beak.

$Red-billed Tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) adult sitting on nest.\nLittle Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago.$

Herring gull in the air shaking off water from a recent dive, turning head completely over. Taken on a sunny summer day at the edge of Long Island Sound in Connecticut.

The Pied Imperial Pigeon, native to Southeast Asia and Northern Australia, feeds on fruits and berries. This photo captures its elegant form in its tropical habitat.

A common tern in the danube delta of romania

Swallow-tailed Gull, Creagrus furcatus. Tower Island or Genovesa Island, Galapagos Islands National Park, Ecuador. Gull with an egg in the nest on the ground.

White tern incubates the egg on a tree branch. Cousin Island in Seychelles.

This photo is a of a newborn Magenta throated woodstar hummingbird in a nest. The egg hatched 30 minutes prior to this photo. The second egg has not hatched yet. The newborn hummingbird is seen laying on its side. The eyes and mouth are shut. The inside of the open egg is visible and in focus. The wing of the bird does not have any feathers yet. The tiny claws are visible in this photo.

A pair of White Terns (Gygis alba) sleeping on a branch

gulls nest on a window frame in Nusfjord in the Lofoten Islands; Nusfjord, Norway

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