Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
About the Sandwich Tern
The Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) is a tern in the family Laridae. It is very closely related to the lesser crested tern (T. bengalensis), Chinese crested tern (T. bernsteini), Cabot's tern (T. acuflavidus), and elegant tern (T. elegans) and has been known to interbreed with both elegant and lesser crested terns. It breeds in the Palearctic from Europe to the Caspian Sea, and winters in the Mediterranean and on the coasts of Africa, India, and Sri Lanka.
A real field recording of the Sandwich 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.
3 recordings on this page · licensed Public Domain / CC0 ×3 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Belgium, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 860 recordings for this species in total.
Similar species
- Cabot's TernThalasseus acuflavidusprofile
- Chinese Crested TernThalasseus bernsteinirecording
- Elegant TernThalasseus elegansprofile
- Greater Crested TernThalasseus bergiirecording
- Lesser Crested TernThalasseus bengalensisprofile
- Royal TernThalasseus maximusprofile
Species grouped by shared genus, family and range.