Sunday, February 15, 2015

FAIRY TERN

Photographed at Werribee Treatment Plant, February 2015

505           FAIRY TERN             Sterna nereis

Australia         (346)

21-25 cm, wingspan c. 50 cm. Found in coastal waters, bays, inlets, saline or bracken lakes, salt fields, sewerage ponds near coast. Predominantly an Australian species; ranges around coast of WA, SA, Vic and Tasmania, and pocket in Queensland on Tropic.



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