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Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii)
The following are photographs of Roseate Terns at Wooded Island in the Abrolhos Islands in November 2001. There was a colony of about 1,000 breeding.
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None had completely red bills, and none had the distinct roseate sheen. They seemed to only have a clutch of one egg laid directly on a scrape in the shell grit in amongst the loose coral.
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