The Inca tern feeds primarily on small fish, such as anchovies.

In the rest of the exhibit area are Inca terns and other coastal South American birds.

When zoo officials arrived on Wednesday evening, they identified it as a 1994 Inca tern hatchling.

The Inca terns were by far the largest breeding colony in North America, and we've lost almost half of them."

The Inca Tern breeds on rocky cliffs.

Scientists studying the Inca tern, a medium-size seabird, have shown that both males and females display a long white mustache of feathers to advertise good health.

The Inca Tern (Larosterna inca) is a seabird in the family Sternidae.

The Living Coast: Humboldt penguins, Inca terns, grey gulls, and moray eels.

Of note is the Inca Tern, a bird endemic to the Humboldt Current, which sweeps the Peruvian coast.

The exhibit has a large net over the top to allow Inca Terns and Common Eider Ducks to be kept in the same enclosure.

The Inca Tern nests in crevices, caves and disused burrows, such as that of a Humboldt Penguin.

An Inca tern hatchling - starving, stunned and frostbitten - was recovered in Wayne, N.J., but after briefly rallying, the bird died.

Windows to the Wild (opened in May 2003): Meerkats, flamingos, kookaburras, hornbills, Inca terns, Emperor tamarins, etc.

The zoo also has areas with Humboldt penguins, Inca terns, lories and lorikeets, and the Insect Zoo Hut.

The aviary will feature a South American seabird colony of Magellanic penguins, Inca terns, Guanay cormorants and other indigenous bird species.

Inca terns and Guanay cormorants, poised for leftovers, commence a shrieking that nearly drowns out the invitation by the zookeeper, Gigi Giacomara, to dine.

Many bird species can be seen in the islands including pelicans, penguins, cormorants, Peruvian boobies, and Inca terns, as well as sea lions, turtles, dolphins, and whales.

Black-faced ibis, Chiloe wigeons, blue-eyed cormorants, Inca terns, king penguins, Magellanic penguins and southern rockhopper penguins.

A stunned, frostbitten Inca tern has been found in a New Jersey driveway, the second of 33 exotic sea birds recovered after a weekend escape from the Bronx Zoo.

The birds won't be easy to replace, said Dr. Bruning, adding that he knew of no other Grey gulls in North America and only a half-dozen places that have Inca terns.

"But we've heard nothing for months now, and our assumption is that the gulls that survived have moved south," Dr. Bruning said, adding that the more delicate Inca terns almost certainly perished.

The aviary will house 50 to 60 birds at first, and zoo officials expect the colony to expand to about 100 birds, including Inca terns, Magellanic penguins, Guanay cormorants and gulls.

Kroger Penguin Palooza includes King penguin, Inca tern, Chinstrap penguin, Gentoo penguin, Macaroni Penguin and Rockhopper penguin.

Most species are pale grey above and white below, with a contrasting black cap to the head, but the marsh terns, the Inca Tern and some noddies have dark plumage for at least part of the year.

There was a call from a spotter of cardinals, someone who was excited to have seen peacocks, a tern on a terrace in Brooklyn - possibly even an Inca tern, one of the types that escaped.