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flock 80 · 950 x Sooty Tern 1215 50 ± 3 Sooty Tern
2 Dark-rumped P 30 ± 5 Wedge-tail
feeding 1 Wedge-tail feeding 5 Brown Es P.
1 Brown Es P. 2 Dark-rumped P.
1 Frigate 2 Fairy Tern
1305 6 Sooty Tern 14:55 6 Sooty Tern
travelling travelling
Frigate (hunting Sooty Tern in flock)
All Dark-rumped seen well today had finished
moulting - upper surfaces mud-grey with dark pattern,
or brown wings, not charcoal grey like immature Dark
rumps. This might be determining characteristic.
Brown Es P. past molting too.
Dark rumped Wedge-tail and Fairy Es seen on water.