Antarctic Tern
Most Northerly Record Ever by Chris Kehoe This moulting juvenile tern was photographed on October 31st 2013 by Jean Neuray near Maroansetra in northeastern Madagascar during a Birdquest tour I was...
View ArticleSix of Eighteen
The Challenge Series: AUTUMN One of the chapters covers Sandwich Tern and Cabot’s tern (the Sandwich Tern of North America). Twice young Cabot’s Terns have reached NW Europe as young birds in their...
View ArticleSandwich Tern with yellow…
on more of the bill than usual This curious looking tern was photographed on the 5th of November at Faro Saltpans in the south of Portugal. Thijs Valkenburg is the guy who picked it up and in...
View ArticleSaunders’s and Little Terns ID pitfalls
Yoav Perlman This is a topic I talked about briefly in my 2015 Spurn Migfest talk. Saunders’s Tern is one of the rarest and least-known breeding birds in the WP. Despite having a large range around...
View ArticleVariation in adult Cabot’s Tern and Sandwich Tern
By Yoav Perlman With special assistance from Mike Langman and Guillermo Rodriguez These two tern species from both sides of the Atlantic look very similar, but in fact are not even the closest...
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