Bird name

[Steve Read <>]

Hi Geoffrey

Thanks for canvassing opinions.

I find ‘Australian Tern’ remarkably uninformative, as opposed to the much more useful ‘Australian Gull-billed Tern’.

And ‘Gull-billed Tern’ implies there is only one species of gull-billed terns, which is now not the case, so the name ‘Common Gull-billed Tern’ is appropriate for that species.

Regards 

Steve

Steve Read

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On Fri, 22 May 2026 at 4:58 am, Geoffrey Dabb via Birding-Aus <m("birding-aus.org","birding-aus");" target="_blank">> wrote:

I would be very interested to hear what people think of the different English names for the one species that are now appearing:  sometimes  ‘Australian Gull-billed Tern’, sometimes ‘Australian Tern’.

 

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