Thanks for this Bob, a very valuable set of shots of this little known stage in Common Tern moult. If you have others in flight with more open wings I’d like to see them even if of lesser quality.
But your gallery doesn’t help resolve the matter of the ID of the red-billed terns on the Brisbane River. All your birds had dark bills as I’m sure most of us would expect in Commic type Terns in Australia in July. As Dimitris Bertzeletos points in the preceding post, red-billed Common Terns would be unusual. I wondered whether they might be Whiskered Terns. Are there any around Brisbane at the moment?
Mike Carter 30 Canadian Bay Road Mount Eliza VIC 3930 Tel (03) 9787 7136
