Date: 10/15/25 1:23 pm
From: Robert Lewis (via carolinabirds Mailing List) <carolinabirds...>
Subject: The Elegant Terns of 2025 and 2023
I've uploaded a lot of my Elegant Tern photos to an album on flickr:  

https://www.flickr.com/photos/rfermat/albums

In the first photo I took one of Daniel Irons's photos of his 2023 bird and juxtaposed it next to the recent bird.  The recent bird has a longer bill.  Could these two be the same individual?  Does the bill keep growing on this species?

Bob Lewis
Durham NC

 
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