A Sandwich Tern, identifiable by the yellow tipped bill, sandwiched between a Royal Tern and a Laughing Gull. I came to this beach with my wife, who wanted to go swimming, and she said 'There are too many birds here'. How can there be too many birds??
Antigua and Barbuda,Argentina,Bahamas,Belize,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Canada,Colombia,Costa Rica,Cuba, Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,French Guiana,Guatemala,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,Jamaica,Mexico, Netherlands Antilles,Nicaragua,Panama,Peru,Puerto Rico,Suriname,Trinidad and Tobago,Turks and Caicos Islands,United States - mainland,Uruguay, Venezuela,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies
Group
Subspecies
Breeding Range
acuflavidus
coastal w North Atlantic from Virginia to Florida, Gulf of Mexico to s Texas, Campeche Bank (n of Yucatan Pen., ec Mexico), Belize cays and West Indies
eurygnathus
islands off Venezuela and the Guianas, coastal e Brazil, ec and se Argentina
(Cabot, S, 1847): NOTE(TAX,SEQ: New World Cabot's Tern, including Cayenne Tern T. eurygnatha, is sister to Elegant Tern, not Sandwich Tern of Europe (Efe et al. 2009; Collinson et al. 2017); acuflavida (Cabot, 1847) has priority over eurygnatha (Saunders,
German
Cayenneseeschwalbe
French
Sterne de Cabot
Chinese
卡氏凤头燕鸥
Japanese
Russian
Крачка Кабота
Spanish
Portuguese
trinta-réis-de-bando
Bird Data App text
A small tern, also called the [Sandwich Tern] (now the Old World species), with a black yellow-tipped bill.
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
