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The forehead and eyebrows are white, as is a striking collar on the hindneck. It has black legs and bill. Juvenile bridled terns are scaly grey above and pale below. This species is unlikely to be confused with any tern apart from the similarly dark-backed sooty tern and the spectacled tern from the Tropical Pacific. It is paler-backed than ...
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[5] [51] The Inca tern nests in crevices, caves and disused burrows, such as that of a Humboldt penguin. [52] The white tern is unique in that it lays its single egg on a bare tree branch. [53] Tropical species usually lay just one egg, but two or three is typical in cooler regions if there is an adequate food supply.
The sooty tern has a pan-tropical distribution; the bridled tern also breeds across the Tropical Atlantic and Indian Ocean but in the central Pacific it is replaced by the spectacled tern. The Aleutian tern breeds around Alaska and Siberia but winters in the tropics around South East Asia .
Sooty tern, Onychoprion fuscatus; Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus; Little tern, Sternula albifrons (A) Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis (A) White-winged tern, Chlidonias leucopterus (A) Whiskered tern, Chlidonias hybrida (A) Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii; White-fronted tern, Sterna striata (A) Great crested tern, Thalasseus bergii (A)
Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus; Least tern, Sternula antillarum; ... Pictures of birds of Florida This page was last edited on 18 November 2024, at ...
Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus (A) Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii; Black-naped tern, Sterna sumatrana (A) Great crested tern, Thalasseus bergii; Tropicbirds.
White tern, Gygis alba (manusina, gogosina) Sooty tern, Onychoprion fuscatus (A) (gogouli) Gray-backed tern, Onychoprion lunatus; Bridled tern, Onychoprion anaethetus; Little tern, Sternula albifrons (A) Roseate tern, Sterna dougallii (A) Black-naped tern, Sterna sumatrana (gogosina) Common tern, Sterna hirundo (A) Great crested tern ...