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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 02:12
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elegant tern of phrase
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how many terns have you seen?
so far, i have 6:
common, forster's, caspian, elegant, royal, sandwich. hope to get least this summer. interested to see what others have seen.
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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 06:47
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13 species so far, 8 in Britain and 5 more on my travels.
Arctic tern, Black Tern, Caspian Tern, Common Tern, Gull Billed Tern, Lesser Crested Tern, Little Tern, Roseate Tern, Royal Tern, Sandwich Tern, South American Tern, Whiskered Tern, White Winged Black Tern. Last edited by Phil Hill : Wednesday 20th June 2012 at 13:24. Reason: Typing error |
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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 08:33
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Cristian Mihai
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Caspian, Gull-billed, White-winged, Whiskered, Black, Common, Sandwich, Little - all 8 in Romania.
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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 11:44
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I saw Sandwich Terns, Artic Terns and Common Terns and their chicks yesterday. The lady from the North Wales Wildlife trust said there were over 2,000 birds
 It was rather amazing. Also, watched the parent birds diving for sand eels. |
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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 15:46
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Michael M
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Location: South Durham
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I've seen a few:
Gull Billed Caspian Lesser Crested Sandwich Roseate Common Forster's Arctic Little Whiskered Black (inc American) White Winged Black 12 species in all |
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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 16:02
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Will Jones
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Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern Royal Tern Great Crested Tern Lesser Crested Tern Sandwich Tern Little Tern Least Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Black Tern 14 species in total.
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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 16:07
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World Birder, County Recorder and Garden Moth-er
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Gull-billed
Caspian Elegant Lesser Crested Sandwich (all three forms) Royal (both forms) Great Crested River Roseate Common Arctic Forster's Little Saunders' Least Yellow-billed Peruvian White-cheeked Black-bellied Bridled Sooty Whiskered White-winged Black Large-billed Brown Noddy Inca So 27 - 17 more to go Steve |
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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 16:08
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André Weiss Pryde
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Gull-billed Tern
Caspian Tern Greater Crested Tern Lesser Crested Tern Sandwich Tern Little Tern Yellow-billed Tern River Tern Roseate Tern Black-naped Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Black Tern Large-billed Tern Inca Tern 17 species so far. André
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Wednesday 20th June 2012, 20:54
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Least
Little Black (American Black) White-winged Black Whiskered Common Arctic Roseate Forster's Sandwich Lesser Crested (Elegant) Gull-billed Caspian Bridled Sooty Abroad: Royal Crested South American Antarctic Damara 20 plus maybe two if American Black gets split and Elegant makes it onto one or other national list in the British Isles. I like terns. John |
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Thursday 21st June 2012, 01:50
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Within the ABA area, I have seen 14 species (seen all in Florida, except Elegant):
Brown Noddy Sooty Tern Bridled Tern Least Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Elegant Tern Elsewhere in the world, I have seen 9 more: Little Tern White-winged Tern Whiskered Tern White-fronted Tern Black-naped Tern Great Crested Tern Lesser Crested Tern Yellow-billed Tern Large-billed Tern For a total of 23 species. Carlos |
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Thursday 21st June 2012, 05:40
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24:
Brown Noddy Black Noddy Sooty Tern Bridled Tern Aleutian Tern Little Tern Least Tern Yellow-billed Tern Large-billed Tern Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Black Tern White-winged Tern Whiskered Tern Roseate Tern Black-naped Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern South American Tern Forster's Tern Royal Tern Sandwich Tern Elegant Tern Great Crested-Tern Missed Chinese crested-tern. |
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Saturday 23rd June 2012, 13:00
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I've seen 20 species in Europe (British Isles, Portugal and Spain) and Australia (including Lord Howe Island). They are listed in approximately the order in which I have seen them:
Sandwich Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Little Tern Black Tern Roseate Tern Caspian Tern Whiskered Tern Gull-billed Tern (Great) Crested Tern Common Noddy Sooty Tern Black Noddy White Tern Grey Ternlet Bridled Tern Lesser Crested Tern Black-naped Tern Fairy Tern White-winged Tern |
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Saturday 23rd June 2012, 14:19
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Marching on Together
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Location: Pontefract
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Sooty Bridled Little Damara Gull-billed Caspian Black (both forms) White-winged Black Whiskered Roseate Arctic Common Forster’s Black-bellied River White-cheeked Royal Great Crested (two forms) Sandwich (two forms) Lesser Crested |
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Saturday 23rd June 2012, 14:41
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Florida sounds like a tern hotspot. I am missing a bunch of species, my tern list standing at 16 for now:
Little Tern Least Tern Yellow-billed Tern Large-billed Tern Caspian Tern Gull-billed Tern Sandwich Tern Royal Tern Inca Tern Black Tern White-winged Tern Whiskered Tern Greater Crested Tern Elegant Tern Forsters Tern Common Tern
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Saturday 23rd June 2012, 15:28
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Location: Anaclann Dúlra an Traonaigh Uí Chuinneagáin
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14 Terns and where I saw them first:
Common: Skerries, Dublin, Republic of Ireland Artic: Skerries Roseate: Skerries Little: Kilcoole, Wicklow, Republic of Ireland Sandwich: Skerries Wiskered: Wexford wildfowl reserve, Republic of Ireland Black: Lady's Island, Wexford White winged black: Lady's Island, Wexford Forster's: Skerries Gull billed tern: Wexford wildfowl reserve Caspian tern: Tunisia Greated Crested tern: Goa, India Lesser crested tern: Goa, India Royal tern: Naples, Florida |
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Sunday 24th June 2012, 03:03
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15 so far:
Common Arctic Roseate Little Least Black White-winged Black Whiskered Bridled Gull-billed Lesser Crested Crested Black-naped Caspian Sandwich In Europe and Australia |
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Sunday 24th June 2012, 05:55
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groovin' on the 35th floor...
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Huh! Seen 22...didn't realise it was that many!
And for Jeff...CCT? On my list  Gull-billed Tern Caspian Tern Royal Tern Greater Crested Tern Chinese Crested Tern Sandwich Tern Little Tern Least Tern Fairy Tern Spectacled Tern Bridled Tern Sooty Tern Roseate Tern White-fronted Tern Black-naped Tern Common Tern Arctic Tern Forster's Tern Black-fronted Tern Whiskered Tern White-winged Tern Black Tern plus White Tern Brown Noddy Black Noddy Grey Noddy if we're counting them! McM Last edited by McMadd : Sunday 24th June 2012 at 05:58. |
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Sunday 24th June 2012, 11:57
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Whiskered Tern, Bogoria, Kenya
White-winged Tern, Bogoria, Kenya Black Tern, Saint Joseph, Missouri Gull-billed Tern, Rockport, Texas Caspian Tern, Savannah, Missouri Royal Tern, Austwell, Texas Sandwich Tern, Fort Myers, Florida Elegant Tern, San Diego, California Roseate Tern, Eastern Egg Rock, Maine Common Tern, Saint Joseph, Missouri Arctic Tern, Long Branch Lake, Macon, Missouri Forster's Tern, Saint Joseph, Missouri Least Tern, Saint Joseph, Missouri Yellow-billed Tern, Sacha Lodge, Ecuador There is a similar thread here for Gulls Terns and Jaegers/Skuas you have seen
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Monday 25th June 2012, 11:46
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For me there have been 4 in the UK - all around the Farne Islands:
Sandwich Roseate Common Arctic Three more in Spain (at El Pinet and El Hondo, near Alicante): Little Whiskered White winged And two in the BVIs: Least Royal Makes 9 in total :) |
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Monday 25th June 2012, 12:43
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aka The Person Named Above
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Damn. Just as I thought it was safe - another 'How many.....' pops up.
1 Brown Noddy 2 Black Noddy 3 Lesser Noddy 4 Blue Noddy 5 White Tern 6 Spectacled Tern 7 Bridled Tern 8 Sooty Tern 9 Fairy Tern 10 Damara Tern 11 Little Tern 12 Saunder's Tern 13 Least Tern 14 Yellow-billed Tern 15 Large-billed Tern 16 Caspian Tern 17 Gull-billed Tern 18 Black Tern 19 White-winged Tern 20 Whiskered Tern 21 Black-fronted Tern 22 Less. Crested Tern 23 Royal Tern 24 Gtr. Crested ( Swift ) Tern 25 Elegant Tern 26 Sandwich Tern 26a Cabot's Tern 26b Cayenne Tern 27 Forster's Tern 28 Snowy-crowned Tern 29 Common Tern 30 Roseate Tern 31 White-fronted Tern 32 Black-naped Tern 33 South American Tern 34 Antarctic Tern 35 Atrctic Tern 36 River Tern 37 Black-bellied Tern 38 White-cheeked Tern and, if you count them as being very close - Black Skimmer African Skimmer Indian Skimmer Which should add up to 41 or 43 depending on your taxonomy  Chris
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Monday 25th June 2012, 13:06
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Not too many but all in locally in Yorkshire as I don't really travel much.
1 Common 2 Arctic 3 Whiskered 4 Black 5 Sandwich 6 White winged Black
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