SANDWICH TERN Thalasseus sandvicensis

Another widespread species breeding on coasts of Europe, espaecially the UK, and wintering in Africa, again coastally. The american race has recently been split as Cabot's Tern, but birds occuring in the USA are black-billed, and very difficult to distinguish except in winter plumage, which is rare in the UK.

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