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rylirk

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I'm absolutely desperate to get me an Arctic Tern this year but I think, again, all of these terns from Titchfield Haven are common... I've also got a couple of videos panning across the tern bank out to sea but (apart from 1 sandwich and a black-headed gull) I think they are all common terns too :( If anyone reckons there's an interesting tern in there somewhere please let me know!

Videos:
https://youtu.be/sXlElaqtE8c
https://youtu.be/SWpJnQY17eQ
https://youtu.be/N2CrTkrdsqM

One day I'll get the hang of these; I find it real tough to separate similar birds when I'm very familiar with one but have zero experience with the other! Been through the same thing with common gulls, Med gulls and shags, but I think I at least have the hang of those ones now...
 

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I'm absolutely desperate to get me an Arctic Tern this year

posting a load of videos, hoping someone else will pick one out for you wouldn’t be very satisfying I imagine ;)!

I can only see Common Terns in the stills and apart from one Sandwich and BHG in the second video, they all look like Common to me.
 
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