sandwich tern

The call is a loud grating noise like Sandwich Tern.

'Sandwich terns,' he called out as I passed.

Patrick spotted a Sandwich Tern going about its own business unperturbed by the golf.

In winter, the adult Sandwich Tern's forehead becomes white.

The slagbanks around Askam are also very important as nesting sites for the rare sandwich terns that live in the area.

Pale grey above (only marginally darker than Sandwich Tern); slightly larger.

From 1996 the Sandwich Tern nested on Rottumerplaat, but has since stopped doing so.

They often form mixed colonies with other terns, such as Common and Sandwich Terns.

Sandwich Tern; occasional.

Birds known to nest here include royal terns, sandwich terns, black skimmers, and laughing gulls.

This archipelago is also an important breeding ground for the Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis).

Notably the Sandwich Tern (Sterna sandvicensis) has a colony.

Other notable visitors include Spoonbill, Sandwich Tern and Whimbrel.

Oystercatchers, redshanks and curlews are common and, in summer, there are flocks of sandwich terns.

The Common Tern and Sandwich Tern, which until about 1970 occasionally bred here, are no longer seen.

Like all Thalasseus terns, the Sandwich Tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, almost invariably from the sea.

On islands at the western end of the lagoon, there is an important tern colony, with the only breeding Sandwich Terns in Wales.

The Sandwich Tern is a vocal bird; its call is a characteristic loud grating kear-ik or kerr ink.

Sterna sandvicensis (Sandwich Tern)

It is most similar to the former, differing only in the bill pattern, which is the reverse of the Sandwich Tern's, being yellow with a black tip.

Near Cemaes is Cemlyn, which hosts the only breeding Sandwich Terns in Wales.

The Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis, syn.

The Sandwich Tern's thin sharp bill is black with a yellow tip, except in the yellow or orange billed South American race.

Other birds which use the island for breeding include avocet, common tern, little tern, sandwich tern and ringed plover.

The UK's largest breeding population of pied avocets and Suffolk's only breeding Sandwich terns can be found there.