Re: [SBB] Black Tern

[michael mammoser <[[email protected]]>]

Ron Thorn asks a very good question about the Black Tern's plumage. This bird was in complete alternate plumage as far as I could tell. I was looking at it from a couple hundred yards with only binoculars, but there was no obvious evidence of juvenal or basic feathering.

 

Michael Mammoser

[[email protected]] wrote:

>  I was just wondering what plumage the Black Tern was in. A Black Tern 
>  would be unusually at this date around these parts and I would think, it 
>  would be a one year old bird in a basic plumage instead of an adult. Do you 
>  remember the Black Tern found by Paul Lehman at Chartleston Slough 
>  in the eighties. That individual was in basic Plumage.
>  
>
>  Ron Thorn 

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