Hello all,
Sorry that I've been very very quiet for the last few weeks - I have had no
computer!! Hopefully I haven't lost everything on it!!!!!
Well, after going through 10 pages of Hotmail on my good friend's laptop this
morning, this tern post has got me going through my Michaelmas Cay notes.....
I can gladly communicate that on one recent summer day trip with Seastar I've
been fortunate to record the following tern! tern! tern! species at the Cay:
Black Noddy, Common Noddy, Common Tern, Roseate Tern, Crested Tern, Lesser
Crested Tern, Black-naped Tern, Little Tern, Sooty Tern, Bridled Tern.
Further regular highlights as others have mentioned at Michaelmas in summer are
the 2 Frigatebirds, occasional Red-footed Boobies, & Wandering Tattlers (with
Grey-tailed)...
On the Cairns Esplanade, my record for tern species on a single day included
the following species one early wet season day:
Gull-billed Tern (both the Aust race & the Asian affinis), Caspian Tern,
Crested Tern, Lesser Crested Tern, Common Tern, Little Tern, White-winged Black
Tern.
One could also come across Whiskered Tern there & possibly one or more of the
reef specialsits if you were extremely lucky during the wet as well!!
There you go Allan, for some more input from Cairns as a tern hot spot...!!
Cheers,
Martin Cachard,
Cairns,
> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 20:15:10 +0800
> To:
> From:
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Tern! Tern! Tern! (to misquote Pete Seeger)
>
>
> Broome is the best place I have had. In the wet season you can get
> Crested, Lesser Crested, Caspian, Gull-billed (both macrotarsa and
> the migratory affinis), Little, Whiskered, White-winged, Common and
> Roseate. The port is the best chance to get most of them. You are
> most likely to miss Whiskered and White-winged which you would get at
> the sewage ponds, although both are possible in the harbour. So 9
> species are certainly possible. In storms, Common Noddy has been
> recorded and occasionally Bridled and Sooty. Fairy Tern was present
> in an unusual year back in the middle of 1990.
>
>
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