Fairy tern Fairy tern The fairy tern ("Sternula nereis") is a small tern which is native to the southwestern Pacific. It is listed as "Vulnerable" by the IUCN and the New Zealand subspecies is "Critically Endangered". There are three subspecies: The fairy tern is a small tern with a white body and light bluish-grey wings. The crown and nape is black. It can be distinguished from the little tern in that a black band extends no further than the eye and not as far as the bill. In the breeding plumage both the beak and the legs are yellowish-orange. During the rest
SY Tern crank compression expansion engines providing 200 bhp to a twin screw propeller. She carried two masts and had an open navigating platform set forward of her amidships single funnel. She was also designed with a distinctive canoe-shaped bow. "Tern" has spent her whole active life operating on Windermere. She was caught in a severe storm while at Lakeside in November 1893 and sank at her moorings, but was refloated that night. In 1923 Furness Railway was absorbed into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, as part of the measures of the Railways Act 1921, with "Tern" continuing to sail for