ABOUT THIS SPECIES
SANDWICH TERN – (Species Account Weblog #70)
TAXONOMIC TREE:
- ORDER: Charadriiformes,
- FAMILY: Laridae,
- BINOMIAL NAME: Thalasseus sandvicensis
The Sandwich Tern is a pale medium-sized tern with a geographically variable invoice sample: black with a definite yellow tip in most of its vary; fully yellow within the Caribbean and elements of South America. Exhibits a shaggy black cap in breeding plumage; nonbreeding birds develop white brow. Strictly coastal; mostly discovered on seashores and estuaries, typically blended with flocks of different terns. (from Birds of the World)
SIMILAR SPECIES
Form most resembles Elegant Tern (T. elegans); Sandwich Tern is barely smaller and fewer cumbersome than Elegant Tern.
DISTRIBUTION
PERSONAL OBSERVATION ANECDOTES
In Costa Rica we noticed Sandwich Terns blended in with Royal Terns and a few Elegant Terns whereas on the boat tour on the mouth of the Tárcoles River.
PHOTO GALLERY
**A few of these Photograph Gallery pictures (all taken by me) have been taken in different close by nations.
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