Crossword-Solution: STERNA 6 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The parents of the white-shafted ternlet (STERNA SINENSIS), the most sylph-like of birds, with others of the family, ever on the look-out, follow in circling, screaming mobs the disturbance on the surface of the sea caused by small fish vainly endeavouring to elude the crafty bonito and porpoise, and take ample supplies to the ever-hungry young.

Thus the migration routes form an enormous ellipse, with a minor axis of 2,000 miles and a major axis stretching 8,000 miles from arctic America to Argentina." (Cooke.) The Arctic Tern (_Sterna paradisaea_), is "the champion long-distance migrant of the world.

Peter Kalm, on his voyage in 1749, says "Terns, _sterna hirundo, Linn_, though of a somewhat darker colour than the common ones, we found after the forty-first degree of north latitude and forty-seventh degree of west longitude from _London_, very plentifully, and sometimes in flocks of some hundreds; sometimes they settled, as if tired, on our ship." _Kalm's Travels_, 1770, Vol.

The light-blue Jay figured in Hardwickii, Sterna, Haliaetus pondicerianus, Chat, Butcher-bird, Edolius, Plovers, Hoopoe, and Ardea indica, were met with.

Chalumeau de Verneuil and de la Roquette who accepted the opinion of the naturalist Cuvier that the _Garjao_ was the _hirondelle de mer_, the _Sterna maxima_ or royal tern.