Monday, 1 May 2023

Arctic tern, Pennington Flash


All terns are nice birds but Arctics are just a cut above the rest. There's been one or two so far this year at the flash, but this one was the first that I have had chance to photograph. Distant of course as they usually are, but you can at least make out all of the saliant features, blood red short bill, long tail streamers, very pale upper wing, translucent primaries and the dark line n the trailing edge of the primaries ends sharply and in a point where it meets the secondaries, unlike on common tern where the line ends squarely.






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