Labels:animal | bird | aquatic bird | text | tern | beak | feather | wing | forster s tern | seabird | common tern | arctic tern OCR: COURTSHIP FEEDING D URING COURTSHIP, some male birds give their partner a gift of food. Courtship feeding only occurs in birds that form long-term pairs, such as terns and many songbirds. It helps to defuse the female's instinctive aggression toward the male. EDIBLE GIFT A male common tern presents his MALE FISH mate with a small fish. Later, he will bring food to their young. FEMALE IN NON- AGGRESSIVE POSTURE
