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Cheeky little fella isn't he?
I am thinking that this might be a Fairy tern
Sternula nereis, but I would like to have more input. It depends, of course, on where you were for Christmas, but anyway:
- Black does not connect eye to bill, as it does in Little Tern
Sternula albifrons sinensis, the only other alternative in Australia, but stops shortly before the eye.
- Wing seems totally light, without a darker forward edge on the outer primaries as on
S. albifrons.
- Bill lacks black tip, and is more orange than on
S. albifrons.
However, this was one of many species I missed when I was down there, so...
As to EHocking's sweep:
An excellent idea! I actually have a kind of prize that I think would fit if we'd want to have a prize for that sort of thing. It still hasn't arrived in Sweden, though, as I sent it from Japan by surface mail, but I think it will arrive within a month, and could then be sent on to whoever gets closest. I will not tell you what it is (at least not until it arrives), but it is something that can not be bought for money, and thus was not bought for money. It is a produced thing, though, so not just feathers or something.
That would require a deadline, though. Perhaps if you delay the revelation a week, and I go and make a new thread in Community and try to get people who have been participating, but not recently, to come and guess? I am not sure if such threads are allowed, but I'll ask a mod first and see.
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