Pegarah Road, E King Island, Tas IMG_2009 20211217 - adult
Notes: Large. White head, breast, underwing coverts &
tail. Black & white underwing pattern; short wedge-shaped tail.
Unfeathered pale tarsi. Juvenile: dark line through eye; brown, mottled
buff, w. buff head, face & throat. Soars w. wings held in strong V-shape.
Generalist carnivore, swooping in shallow dive on prey.
Range from Morcombe & Stewart©
Cattana Wetlands, Cairns, FN Qld IMG_1120 20190422
Green Island, Cairns, FN Qld IMG_3518 20191221 - being chased off by White-breasted Woodswallow
Karumba Point, NW Qld IMG_4798 20170820
Liverpool River, Arnhem Land, N NT MVI_0023 20160804 - eating a bat
Roebuck Bay, Broome, NW WA IMG_3317 20180916 - adult.
Lake Martha Lavina, N King Island, Tas IMG_2348 20211218 - immature: whitish body, heavily mottled breastband, whitish head.
Morris Road, Giru, NE Qld IMG_9992 20220226 - juvenile: mottled brown body, white panels in under-wing primaries; wings broader than adult. CLICK for another with crab, foreshore, Cairns North, FNE Qld 20230818.
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Richard's Point, Roebuck Bay, Broome, NW WA MVI_2039 20180908 - eating a fish
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Karumba Point, NW Qld IMG_5576 20200620 - being harrassed by a Whistling Kite
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Liverpool River, Arnhem Land, N NT MVI_0007 20160804 - eating a bat