Thalasseus bergii
Crested Tern at Merimbula, NSW
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| Thalasseus bergii | plants | 23 Sep 2022 | |
| Unverified | MichaelBedingfield | 23 Sep 2022 |
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Merimbula
8 comments
23 Sep 2022
Smaller terns look like common/white fronted. Looking at eBird, seems more likely that they’re White-fronted Terns.
24 Sep 2022
Crested Terns for sure. White-frinted Terns have a black bill for a start (at least in non-breeding plumage), they are never this numerous on the coast.
24 Sep 2022
I was talking about the smaller terns amongst them. E.g in the first image on the far left, directly in front of a crested tern
24 Sep 2022
Gotcha. Havcing copied photi and zoomed in, I can see a smaller tern in that photo but I would not like to call it.
24 Sep 2022
I agree, photos aren’t good enough to call it on, but by process of elimination they’re either common or white fronted terns, and as I said, looking at eBird, white fronted would be more probable.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.917227-36.891794
- Altitude 24.0m
- Places Merimbula, NSW
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM Recorded on
- MichaelBedingfield Recorded by
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- MichaelBedingfield South Coast NatureMapr Thalasseus bergii Other Waterbirds (Crakes, Grebes, Gulls and Terns) Water birds Birds
Species information
- Thalasseus bergii Scientific name
- Crested Tern Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 54m Recorded at altitude
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