Word: terns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pond is filled with goldfish he put there, and he likes to tell how they grow according to their environment, small in a fishbowl and larger in a pond. His are half a foot long and he attends them carefully. That afternoon a saltwater bird, a gray tern, was circling the fish, and Reagan moved quickly toward the pond. Annoyed, he began tossing stones at the bird each time it landed on the water but could not scare it off. In the past he had come across kingfishers, he said, diving down and spearing his fish, but he had never...
...islands glitter with bright, swooping birds, whose local names are often as colorful as their plumage: the sugarbird or bananaquit; eight varieties of tern, one known as kill-'em-Polly; five endemic warblers, one called Betsey-kick-up or Mary-shake-well; the common stilt or crackpot soldier; the mangrove cuckoo or 4 o'clock bird; the magnificent frigate, and the brown pelican, with its beak holding more than its belican...