Malaka’s Little Tern outside the breeding season
Observations of MALAKA’s LITTLE TERN Sterna albifrons habibi away from the Mediterranean
Malaka’s Little Tern has been found breeding along the SE Mediterranean. It is the darkest among little terns, in freshly moulted plumage resembles a miniature Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus, while breeding the plumage bleaches, see here:
https://www.radioactiverobins.com/malagas-little-tern/
there is one record from Kuwait by Mike Pope, see here:
https://birdingfrontiers.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/saunderss-and-little-terns-id-pitfalls/
Other records are from India and Bahrain, see:
