Help with bird IDs

[Nikolas Haass <>]

Nick and Greg,
Yep, I also agree with Superb Fairy Wren.
I think the terns are one adult non-breeding and one first winter White-fronted 
Terns. To me the the primaries in the movie have a similar shade to the rest of 
the upperparts (good for White-fronted). In the movie with the adult bird 
alone, you can even see the white primary fringes (good for White-fronted). In 
both movies I miss the contrast of dark primaries to lighter upperparts as I 
would expect for Common Tern.
Regards,
Nikolas

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Nikolas Haass

Sydney, NSW


----- Original Message ----
From: Greg & Val Clancy <>
To: Nicholas Talbot <>; birding aus 
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Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 10:56:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Help with bird IDs

I agree that the Fairy-wrens are Superb - appear to be a young male and two 
females.

The tern is more difficult.  Common Terns do sometimes stay late or 
over-winter and the white edging to the primaries (a feature of 
White-fronted) doesn't appear to be very obvious.


Regards

Greg Clancy