Photo 84782508, (c) Shaun Lee, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Shaun Lee

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Photos / Sounds

What

New Zealand Piper (Hyporhamphus ihi)

Observer

shaun-lee

Date

July 17, 2020 08:57 AM NZST

Description

Prey item. Not sure if the Caspian Tern was able to eat it in the air or not. If it did it ate it very fast and kept on fishing with the Gannets, White-fronted terns and Red-billed gulls. This was by far the largest fish I saw leave the water.

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