Showing posts with label White-winged Tern. Show all posts
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Monday, May 1, 2017

WHITE-WINGED TERN

Photographed in Sri Lanka, March 2017

(*   504)                 WHITE-WINGED TERN                 Chlidonias leucopterus    

SRI LANKA           56
Found over marshes, lakes, paddy fields, tanks, lagoons and salt-pans. 20-23 cm. Fairly common winter migrant mainly to dry lowlands, fairly rare inset lowlands. Also referred to as White-winged Black Tern.