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Forster's Tern

Sterna forsteri

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6 Comments

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

By the head coloring it doesn't look like a Forster's from the images I can find. How sure are you Ashley?

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

Thank you

AshleyT
AshleyT 9 years ago

Ah yea, can't remove missions with Chrome. I use Firefox so just removed it for you! And yea, the date is last winter, when they aren't supposed to be in the US lol

James McNair
James McNair 9 years ago

Ashley I posted this a while Ago. I use google chrome and cannot remove mission I have tried. Thanks Jaguar61.

AshleyT
AshleyT 9 years ago

Can't see the bird well enough, but it's unlikely to be a least tern since they don't winter in the US. Much more likely to be a forster's tern. You should also remove this from the Galapagos Biodiversity mission since this was in Florida :)

Jaguar61
Jaguar61 9 years ago

I like the bird. Advice for future pictures, I would crop the picture a little to zoom in. Don't crop do much that it is blurry though.

James McNair
Spotted by
James McNair

Florida, USA

Spotted on Dec 22, 2013
Submitted on Jan 16, 2014

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