Tern's Courtship Feeding Ritual - Click image to view larger!

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Common Terns have a unique mating ritual in which the pair do

acrobatic flights together over the nesting island. The male also intices

the female to pair with him by bringing her fish, a behavior called

courtship feeding. Studies have shown that the female chooses her

mate by the size and number of fish brought to her by the male.

Not unlike human females.  Ha! Good shot!

Hehe, Yes, not much unlike human there. The female wants to make sure he's good at feeding the family (wife & kids) for sure. These shot are very much 100% view (very small crop) which only the 5D Mark II can handle, my 7D would not have yielded kind of result. However,  it would have been better if I had a longer lens or got closer but I was afraid I would scare them (I was about 40 feet away). 400mm on a fullframe sensor is so marginal in birdshooting, I think.