A group of common terns, collectively known as a committee of terns is the focus of this design. The species here shows the Common Tern whose head and head feathers are distinctively black, breast white, tinged with gray and swallow-like forked tail.
Some of the items show one large tern followed by progressive waves of smaller terns in greater numbers radiating from a centre point outside the image, generated as a fractal design. It gives the impression of terns in a symmetrical flight pattern similar to waves breaking on a shore.
The vintage illustration dates from a publication on British birds and their habitats in 1899. The species here shows the Common Tern whose head and head feathers are distinctively black, breast white, tinged with gray and swallow-like forked tail. The tern is a smaller seabird than most gulls, many people often mistaking a tern for a gull.
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