ML37082301
Contributor
Date
Location
- Age and sex
- Adult, Unknown sex - 1
Observation details
72 Little Terns in breeding and nonbreeding plumage. According to a communication by the Australian Bird and Bat Banding Scheme ('ABBBS') per Joris Driessen via a statement published on Facebook group 'Shorebird leg-flag sightings in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF)' on 25 September 2020, the banded Little Tern shown in images one and four was banded as a 'first year or older - sex unknown' on 21 Febuary 1994 by the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Seabird Project in the Manning River Estuary, Harrington New South Wales at -31.879166, 152.691666. According also to the ABBBS per Joris Driessen, this bird, having been recorded 22 years 7 months and 19 days since banding, was the oldest Little Tern on record before Geoff White photographed the same bird, then aged 25 years and 11 months since banding, at Soldiers Beach New South Wales on 26 January 2020. Additionally, according to a communication by the bander per Joris Driessen, the bird, which had last been recorded before this observation on 24 December 2006, was assigned the number 041 80011 as a first year bird and the colour of the top flag had originally been red rather than pink.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 5D
- ISO
- 400
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/10.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/800 sec
- Dimensions
- 1607 pixels x 866 pixels
- Original file size
- 524.05 KB