{"id":20401,"date":"2010-06-07T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/tern-down\/"},"modified":"2010-06-07T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T21:41:00","slug":"tern-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/islands\/tern-down.php","title":{"rendered":"Tern down"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A mighty Arctic Tern<\/div>

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Monday 7th June comments<\/strong>:
Today was a sad day as we lost one of our own – an adult nesting Arctic Tern has gone and isn’t coming back. Over all my years I’ve seen Arctic Terns lost to old age, Peregrine attack, Greater Black-backed Gull mauling and even a Great Skua raid, but I’ve never encountered the loss of one of our birds to a human visitor.

Today, a visitor decided to grab a garden cane (marking an Eider nest) and whack an Arctic Tern out of the sky, damaging its wing beyond repair and killing the bird. The adult, simply defending its nest, was one of many which nest along the pathways on Inner Farne and was sitting on two eggs. Arctic Terns winter in the southern oceans and despite the perils and dangers of such huge migrations on an annual basis, this poor individual was lost to something which should have known better.<\/p>

15 stone Vs 40 grams – there is only going to be one winner. So thank you ‘visitor’ – please don’t return, as one idiot for the year is enough – your village missed you today. We’re here to protect these birds, not swot them like flies – I hope he feels fully ashamed tonight, but I very much doubt it. The Farne’s will mourn a loss but for anyone visiting in the future – these birds are simply defending their nests and please give them the respect they deserve. Its been a sad day.<\/p><\/div>

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