Skipickos Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Hi All, Taken June 12th at East Jetty in Destin Florida. #1 Common Tern #2/3 Black Tern 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexHenry Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 The first photo is all Least Terns The last photo is indeed a Black Tern 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birding Boy Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Agreed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 @Skipickos Congrats on being the 50,000 post on this forum. Not that it really means anything, but cool none the less 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skipickos Posted June 13, 2020 Author Share Posted June 13, 2020 50,000! Thats a win for today!! 1 hour ago, AlexHenry said: The first photo is all Least Terns The last photo is indeed a Black Tern Thanks! The black bar on the wing had me leaning common... Black terns a lifer tho! 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, Skipickos said: Black terns a lifer tho! 🙂 Congrats! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 Can Least Tern show an all black cap like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexHenry Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 I’m assuming people are referring to the middle terN in the first photo. First, notice that it’s surrounded by Least Terns, and appears to be the same size as them. This alone rules anything else out, except Black Tern which is pretty small as well, but Black Tern plumage is different. Also if you zoom in, it does have a white forehead. I agree it’s a lot of black on the head for a Least Tern, but I still think it’s a Least Tern. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Posted June 13, 2020 Share Posted June 13, 2020 I didn't notice the white forehead, it really blends in! Yeah I figured as much considering the size, but it definitely made me do a double take 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Leukering Posted June 15, 2020 Share Posted June 15, 2020 On 6/12/2020 at 8:09 PM, Skipickos said: 50,000! Thats a win for today!! Thanks! The black bar on the wing had me leaning common... Black terns a lifer tho! 🙂 Knowing field marks is good. Knowing which species that such rule out AND which they don't, is better. As example. Most birders in the West "know" that the gray rump of Chipping Sparrow is diagnostic. However, it's not. It's diagnostic at ruling out Clay-colored and Brewer's, but it does not rule out Field nor Black-chinned, nor American Tree, though that species is no longer in Spizella. The bird in question in that first pic is the same size as all of the Least Terns in the pic, thus ruling out anything other than Least or Little terns. Or Saunder's? Is that one of the tiny ones? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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