No, not a news item about the slackening of Covid-19 restrictions in the takeaway industry.
Thuens Kruger, an avid Sandwich Tern colour-ring reader in South Africa, has just sent me details of Sandwich Tern KFC ringed as a juvenile on autumn passage at Ynyslas in 2016 (shown below) see https://midwalesringers.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-chicken-sandwich.html
After a 3 year absence it was re-sighted at Eersterivier mouth, Macassar, South Africa on 7th Jan 2020 and 12th Feb 2020 and then again at Greenways, Strand, South Africa on 14th Feb 2020.
Neither photo is his best work but both certainly good enough and absolutely no doubt about the ring inscription, he also managed repeat sightings of KAL and KNB too. Really good to hear KFC is still going - waiting on news of its namesake now!
A quick update, Ben Stammers of North Wales Wildlife Trust has just id'd KFC at their Cemlyn colony on Anglesey in North Wales.
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