ML645613951
Contributor
Jim Kirker Media from this contributor
Date
Location
Hamer Street, Wynyard Quarter
Auckland City, Auckland, New Zealand
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
- Behaviors
- Flying
Media notes
Sooty Tern in flight at Hamer Street Wharf, Auckland 21/11/25
Observation details
Appeared slightly larger than a white-fronted tern with grey black upper parts, black crown and nape and a black line from eye to bill. Near flocks of white-fronted terns and silver gulls, both of which occasionally harassed it. The sooty tern pecked at a small patch of low vegetation on the wharf and settled into it for a few minutes before wandering off and resting again nearby. I watched it for about half an hour after the count and noticed that it favoured resting on the few small patches of vegetation present on the wharf. It flew a few metres once, possibly to escape harassment and called at least once, a quiet rasping call.
Technical information
- Model
- DMC-FZ2500
- ISO
- 125
- Focal length
- 176 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/4.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/1000 sec
- Dimensions
- 2235 pixels x 1101 pixels
- Original file size
- 216.11 KB