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Fairy Terns

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Subject: Fairy Terns
From: Jill Dening <>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:48:45 +1000
Hi to all, with a request,

I have heard of a report of Fairy Terns in the Pumicestone Passage, SEQld. This is a very unusual occurrence. I am seeking photos or information from southern Australian birders to help me fill a knowledge gap.

Here in southern Qld we get virtually no experience of Fairy Terns, and have to travel further south to do so. I have very little experience myself of Fairy Terns (a handful of occasions), but knowing how difficult terns can be because of their changing plumages, I know that the field guides are only helpful for the breeding and non-breeding seasons. When the birds are passing from one phase to another as now, they are generally not documented. A search of google images didn't help me either.

If there is anyone in southern Australia who has been photographing them, I would very much like to find out how they look at different months of the year. I would like to know what they look like now. Either by description or by photograph taken at a known month, I would be grateful for any information to help fill my knowledge gap. I am interested in bill and leg colour, degree of black cap, condition of the primaries so as to read the age of the primaries, at any single month.

I don't want to clog up the list with this stuff, so would anyone with a comment please contact me privately?

Cheers,

Jill
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Jill Dening
Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

26° 51' 41"S	152° 56' 00"E
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