Another possibility for this bird is second calendar year fresh
non-breeding, some higher resolution images would be handy.
Cheers Jeff Davies.
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From:
On Behalf Of John Graff
Sent: Sunday, 7 August 2011 1:02 PM
To: ; Birds WA E-Mail List
Subject: "Commic" tern at Hillarys Boat Harbour
Further to yesterday's posting, Jeff Davies has kindly looked at a few
photos of the bird and confirmed that the bird is an Arctic Tern (1st
summer), so this may be a good chance to see this species, which is a rare
visitor to the Perth coast. I haven't heard any further reports (positive or
negative) since yesterday morning.
It's possible that it arrived during the bout of strong westerlies that blew
through late last week, over last weekend and into the start of this week.
Cheers,John
> From:
> To: ;
> Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 13:36:46 +0800
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] "Commic" tern at Hillarys Boat Harbour
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> For those who have not heard, a "commic" tern has been present the last
few days at Hillarys Boat Harbour in Perth, and was still showing well this
morning flying around the marina and also perched on a jetty with Crested
Terns. The best area to look for it is from along the southern harbour
wall/groyne. Park near AQWA (the Aquarium of WA) and walk out along the
groyne until you reach the outer harbour - the bird often flies along the
rock walls here, and sometimes rests with the Crested Terns. The bird was
first seen on Thursday by Michael Hancock, then again on Friday morning by
Ted & Maureen Cawley, and subsequently by others on Friday afternoon and
this morning. The ID is still not settled, but Arctic Tern is probably the
favourite at this stage
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
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