Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)
About the Gull-billed Tern
The gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica) is a tern in the family Laridae. It is widely distributed and breeds in scattered localities in Europe, Asia, northwest Africa, and the Americas. The Australian gull-billed tern was previously considered a subspecies.
A real field recording of the Gull-billed Tern. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Brazil, China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Georgia and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 319 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Australian TernGelochelidon macrotarsaprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.