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Grey Ternlets are medium-sized terns. Their plumage comes in two different morphologies, light and dark. Light morphology Grey Ternlets have an all-white head, neck and front (chest, belly, vent, tail). The wings are light-grey, with conspicuous dark-grey tips. The dark morphology is light-grey wherever the light morphology is white and the wings are a darker shade of grey, with black wing tips. Both morphologies have black eyes, a black bill and black legs and feet.

The overall distribution of this species can be assessed, and specific locations where birds have been spotted can be found, based on individual sighting reports submitted by birdwatchers to ebird.org .

The global distribution of the Gery Ternlet is available HERE .

There are three races of Grey Ternlets, which populate the subtropical and warm temperate parts of the southern Pacific Ocean.

Only Grey Ternlets, race "albivitta", are found around Australia. They reach Australian coastal waters and some offshore islands from the East, in an area spanning from about Fraser Island, QLD, to northern Tasmania. They hardly ever reach the continental coastline.

When not beeding on off-shore islands, Grey Ternlets are usually found on the open sea.

Race "albivitta"