Brisbane River terns & Common Terns at Woorim, Bribie Island, SE Qld - photos.

["Mike Carter" <>]

Thanks for this Bob, a very valuable set of shots of this little known stage 
in Common Tern moult. If you have others in flight with more open wings I'd 
like to see them even if of lesser quality.
But your gallery doesn't help resolve the matter of the ID of the red-billed 
terns on the Brisbane River. All your birds had dark bills as I'm sure most 
of us would expect in Commic type Terns in Australia in July. As Dimitris 
Bertzeletos points in the preceding post, red-billed Common Terns would be 
unusual. I wondered whether they might be Whiskered Terns. Are there any 
around Brisbane at the moment?
Mike Carter
30 Canadian Bay Road
Mount Eliza  VIC 3930
Tel  (03) 9787 7136