Photographed at Stockyard Point, Victoria December 2015 |
737 ASIATIC GULL-BILLED TERN Sterna affinis
Australia (580)
This is currently a sub-species of the Gull-billed Tern. It is a vagrant to Australia, being a non-breeding summer migrant (Sept.-April) from Asia to n and e coast, s. to Hunter R. (NSW). It is smaller, greyer, short-legged; usually in non-breeding plumage.