[CT Birds] ID Help - Skimmer or Tern Chick

[Roy Harvey]

That is not a Black Skimmer chick.  Their bills are quite thick, top
to bottom, unlike the bird pictured.  I found an example on the web:

http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/environmentalstudies/Faculty/Elizabeth%20Forys.php

Roy Harvey
Beacon Falls, CT


--- "Richard L. Becker" <rlbecker at songstar.org> wrote:

> I'd appreciate some ID help with the chick  shown at
> http://songstar.org/birds/skim-tern.html - Images were taken at
> theSkimmer/Tern colony at Breezy Point in Queens, NY.
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard
>                               Richard L. Becker
>                           Stamford, Connecticut
>           www.songstar.org      rlbecker at songstar.org