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thalasseus bergii

  1. Crested Terns

    Crested Terns

    Crested Terns, note the adult has a band on its leg.
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    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  2. Crested Terns

    Crested Terns

    Crested Terns
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    • crested tern thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  3. Here's looking at you

    Here's looking at you

    A bit further along and there was a lonely Greater Crested Tern. Another large gull, though it is smaller than the one I showed you yesterday. They appear to be found all round the coast of Australia.
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 albany australia greater crested tern little grove nikon coolpix p900 november rushy point thalasseus bergii western australia
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  4. Crested Tern

    Crested Tern

    Crested Tern
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    • crested tern thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  5. An assortment of black and whites

    An assortment of black and whites

    Australian Ibis, Great Crested Tern and others, not so easily picked out; but there's a White-faced Heron, Caspian Tern and a little Silver Gull. There's other things out there, brownish... merging into the mud and seaweed and I've not a scoobie about them!!
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 albany australia australian ibis chroicocephalus novaehollandiae great crested tern little grove nikon coolpix p900 november silver gull thalasseus bergii threskiornis molucca western australia
    • Comments: 11
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  6. Cresties

    Cresties

    A little apart from the pelicans was a group of Great Crested Tern. These guys too, a bit dozy.
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 albany australia emu point great crested tern nikon coolpix p900 november oyster harbour thalasseus bergii western australia
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  7. Great Crested Tern

    Great Crested Tern

    An adult in non-breeding plumage showing streaky black hind-crown. Other names include Greater Crested Tern, Crested Tern and Swift Tern, sometimes hyphenated Great Crested-Tern. Subspecies differ primarily in mantle color and extent of white in the forehead in breeding plumage. Indonesian...
    • jmorlan
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    • ceram sea great crested tern indonesia seram island thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  8. Daddy bird, Mummy bird and Baby bird

    Daddy bird, Mummy bird and Baby bird

    Sorry, just couldn't resist that title, just reminded me of the Goldilocks story LOL. Just beyond the Welcome Swallows was this group consisting of Australian Pelican, Great Cormorant, Silver Gull, Caspian Tern and Great Crested Tern.
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 albany australia australian pelican caspian tern chroicocephalus novaehollandiae great cormorant great crested tern hydroprogne caspia little grove nikon coolpix p900 november pelecanus conspicillatus phalacrocorax carbo silver gull thalasseus bergii western australia
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  9. Great Crested Tern

    Great Crested Tern

    An adult in non-breeding plumage showing streaky black hind-crown. They go under various alternate English names: Greater Crested Tern, Crested Tern and Swift Tern, sometimes hyphenated Great Crested-Tern. Formerly included in the genus "Sterna." Races poorly differentiated differing primarily...
    • jmorlan
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    • great crested tern namibia thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Africa
  10. Hunting

    Hunting

    It's always nice to return to a site a few days later and be able to pick up different species. Hot on the heels of the kingfisher, I spotted a Great Crested Tern hunting over the water. I love terns. Had my booster vaccines this morning!
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 australia gold coast great crested tern nikon coolpix p900 october oxenford weir queensland thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 10
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  11. Unexpected

    Unexpected

    Further along the beach we came across a group of Great Crested Terns, my first sighting of these large terns. I quite over-looked the fact that there was a Gull-billed tern in amongst them until I downloaded the pictures!! I really didn't think terns could be so big LOL SF
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 australia bribie island buckley's hole buckley's hole beach fuji finepix hs50 gelochelidon nilotica great crested tern gull-billed tern october queensland saturday fun thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 12
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  12. Crested Tern

    Crested Tern

    Crested Tern
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    • crested tern flight thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  13. Crested Tern

    Crested Tern

    Crested Tern
    • thunor
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    • crested tern flight thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  14. Greater crested Tern

    Greater crested Tern

    A mainly marine tern that's commonly found in Eastern Africa.
    • the_kenyanbirder
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    • great crested-tern kenya thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Africa
  15. flying

    flying

    as they told me there are tree types of terns, i can only remember two. hope you like this big mess of flying terns.
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    • great crested-tern lesser and greater crested terns lesser crested-tern saudi arabia thalasseus bengalensis thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: Middle-East
  16. Great but smaller

    Great but smaller

    ... well smaller than Caspian that is! It's nearly 10cm smaller. So this was the other main tern species found in harbour here.
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 albany australia great crested tern little grove nikon coolpix p900 november rushy point thalasseus bergii western australia
    • Comments: 13
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  17. More waiting passengers

    More waiting passengers

    Further along that pontoon were some Great Crested Terns. Guess they were waiting for the next boat too!
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 albany australia emu point great crested tern nikon coolpix p900 november oyster harbour thalasseus bergii western australia
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  18. A crestie

    A crestie

    .... but a darn sight bigger than the 'crestie' we know and love in Scotland LOL Another tern hanging out on the beach were some Great Crested Terns. Nice looking guys aren't they.
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 albany australia great crested tern little grove nikon coolpix p900 november thalasseus bergii western australia
    • Comments: 16
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  19. Crested Tern

    Crested Tern

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    • crested tern thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 19
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  20. Hunting

    Hunting

    Some places, like Oxenford Weir, you just have to have your eyes looking in all directions and at all levels! For no sooner had I taken the picture of the cormorant at water level than I spotted a Great Crested Tern hovering up in the air trying to spot a fish! I was pretty pleased with this...
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 australia gold coast great crested tern nikon coolpix p900 october oxenford weir queensland thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 17
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  21. Crested Tern

    Crested Tern

    • peterday
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    • crested tern thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 15
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  22. Great crested tern

    Great crested tern

    Kogalla Beach, Sri Lanka
    • jforgham
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    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  23. Cresties

    Cresties

    .... but these are a darn sight bigger than what we call 'cresties' over here LOL. These are Great Crested Terns and are rather large. Nice birds these and another Lifer of course!
    • delia todd
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    • 2019 australia bribie island buckley's hole buckley\'s hole beach fuji finepix hs50 great crested tern october queensland thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 9
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  24. Crested Terns

    Crested Terns

    • peterday
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    • crested tern thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 18
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
  25. Crested Tern

    Crested Tern

    Plenty more terns still to go, KC!!
    • peterday
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    • crested tern thalasseus bergii
    • Comments: 15
    • Category: Asia, Australia & Pacific Islands
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