Sterna Hirundo at San Francisco
Journal
Condor
Volume
5
Issue
3 (May-June)
Year
1903
Pages
81
Section
From Field and Study
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Sterna hirundo at San Francisco
It is with great pleasure that I am enabled to add one more to our already long list of Pacific Coast birds. On January 19, 1903, my friend Mr. Ernest Werder while roaming over the hills at the Presidio, San Francisco, found what was to him a strange bird and wishing to know what it was forwarded it to me. I have identified it as the common tern, Sterna hirundo. This is so far as I am aware the first record from the coast. The bird when taken was alive, but in a very emaciated condition and died shortly after being found. It was probably hurled to the earth while in a weakened condition by the severe storms which occurred about that time.
C. LITTLEJOHN
Redwood City, Cal.
