Lovely Report Harvey,
That Fairy Tern, however, is a Fairy x Little cross.
Hybrid indicators are the (very) extensively black tipped beak and dark primaries and greyish wing feathers (pure white on Fairy Tern).
All the best,
D.
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:23:17 +1100
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Subject: [canberrabirds] White-rumped Sandpiper
Last Tuesday I and some friends from Canberra went o twitch the White-rumped Sandpiper that has been at Lake Wollumboola for a couple of weeks now. I've just put up a post on my blog about our very successful day. HarPer's Bizarre - a naturalist's miscellany, at
http://hdpphd.blogspot.com.au/
If you haven't yet been to see it - go!
Harvey
