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IDENTIFY this bird - Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)?
Subject: IDENTIFY this bird - Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)?
Poster: Kim Jinsuk (jskim@bioinfo.kordic.re.kr)
aas50463-Black Tern-mom with chick.jpg
File size : 107549 bytes File date : 1998:09:28 09:00:00 Resolution: 804x600 Jpeg process : Baseline Posted Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.animals Posted Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:51:41 +0000

IDENTIFY this bird - Black Tern (Chlidonias niger)?


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From: Billy
Subject: Re: IDENTIFY this bird - aas50463.jpg [1/1]
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 20:43:27 -0600

I havent got a clue as to what this bird is supposed to be. Never sen
anything marked like it before.


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From: mkramer@wxs.nl (Martin Kramer)
Subject: Re: IDENTIFY this bird - aas50463.jpg [1/1]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 23:04:26 GMT

The head coloring is very strange (were is the eye?),
but I think the bird that comes closes
is a Black Tern (Chlidonias niger) that is beginning to molt it's
feathers. Found one picture showing the bird in a similar coloring,
checking about 5 different field guides all showing slight
differences.The white on the front part of the wing
(shoulders, upper arms) do match, as is the
black belly and white rump. Chick and eggs
indicate it is a tern in any case.
The bird might have been drawn after a poorly stuffed
specimen. Surroundings are also quite different
from their breeding places here in the Netherlands
were they breed in marshes on vegetation just above the
water.

Martin Kramer

mkramer@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~mkramer/

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