Tony Stoddard, Calm before the storm (ANIMALS 2024)

Two adult Tara/White-Fronted Terns enter into a 5-minute Territorial Aerial Combat as a storm brews around them and winds gust to 65 km/h across the Tern colony at Waikanae Beach, Wellington NZ.

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