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Sighting 4445153

Thalasseus bergii

Crested Tern at Merimbula, NSW

Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
Thalasseus bergii at Merimbula, NSW - 16 Jul 2020 04:56 PM
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Identification history

Thalasseus bergii 23 Sep 2022 plants
Unverified 23 Sep 2022 MichaelBedingfield

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Merimbula

8 comments

MichaelBedingfield wrote:
   23 Sep 2022
Is it possible to ID this flock or some of them?
Liam.m wrote:
   23 Sep 2022
Smaller terns look like common/white fronted. Looking at eBird, seems more likely that they’re White-fronted Terns.
plants wrote:
   24 Sep 2022
Crested Terns for sure. White-frinted Terns have a black bill for a start (at least in non-breeding plumage), they are never this numerous on the coast.
Liam.m wrote:
   24 Sep 2022
I was talking about the smaller terns amongst them. E.g in the first image on the far left, directly in front of a crested tern
Liam.m wrote:
   24 Sep 2022
There’s about 5/6 that I can see throughout the photos
plants wrote:
   24 Sep 2022
Gotcha. Havcing copied photi and zoomed in, I can see a smaller tern in that photo but I would not like to call it.
Liam.m wrote:
   24 Sep 2022
I agree, photos aren’t good enough to call it on, but by process of elimination they’re either common or white fronted terns, and as I said, looking at eBird, white fronted would be more probable.
MichaelBedingfield wrote:
   25 Sep 2022
Thanks guys

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Species information

  • Thalasseus bergii Scientific name
  • Crested Tern Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 54m Recorded at altitude
  • 130 images trained Machine learning

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