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White TernAlternate name(s): "Angel Tern", "White Noddy", "Love Tern" Size: 30-33 cm; wing span ca. 75 cm Weight: 130-140 g |
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See White
Tern at Wikipedia |
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Photos |
Race "candida"
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ADULT |
Sex unknown |
Near-frontal view of a pair of White Terns in a Norfolk Island
pine (photo courtesy of M. Mearns)
[Norfolk Island, January 2008]
Pair of White Terns (photo courtesy of D. Hobday)
[Lord Howe Island, August 2011]
Slightly different posture (photo courtesy of D. Hobday)
[Lord Howe Island, August 2011]
Pair of White Terns (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Wharf, Lord Howe Island, November 2014]
Ventral view of a White Tern (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Wharf, Lord Howe Island, November 2014]
White Tern banking to land in a tree (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Wharf, Lord Howe Island, November 2014]
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Breeding information |
Breeding season: Oct? - ? | Eggs: 1 | Incubation period: ? | Fledging age: ? |
Nest building: N/A | Incubation: ? | Dependent care: Female & male |
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Nest |
"bungobittah", "lar", "malunna", "jindi" [bundjalung] = nest [Aboriginal] |
Type: Tree fork | Material: N/A | Height above ground: ? |
White Tern with its chick in the "nest", on a major branch of a
Norfolk Island pine (photo courtesy of B. Hensen)
[Wharf, Lord Howe Island, November 2014]
Lateral view of a White Tern protecting its chick
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[April 2019]
Dorsal view of a White Tern protecting its chick
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[April 2019]
Dorsal view of a White Tern protecting its chick
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[April 2019]
Frontal view of a White Tern chick
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[April 2019]
Near-frontal view of a White Tern chick; note the well-developed
claws used by the chick to hold on to the branch that is its "nest"
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[April 2019]
Near-lateral view of a White Tern chick
(photo courtesy of P. Brown)
[April 2019]
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Eggs |
"boyanga", "booyanga", "derinya", "dirandil", "koomura", "mirk", "ngampu", "nooluk", "pateena", "pum-pum" = Egg; "dirundirri" = eggs [Aboriginal]; "gawu" = eggs [gamilaraay] |
Size: 52 x 36 mm | Colour: Creamy, with varying degrees of dark-brown speckling | Shape: Tapered oval |