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posted September 5th, 2007; last edited April 9th, 2010 –– David Sibley

Sandwich Tern - leg color

In an interesting 4 September comment under the Sandwich Tern bill color discussion, Joseph Kennedy presents a photo of a juvenile Royal Tern with partly yellow-orange legs. Compared to one of his photos of juvenile Sandwich with yellow legs, the Royal appears to have brighter leg color. Presumably that is variable, but it would be [...]

posted August 23rd, 2007; last edited April 9th, 2010 –– David Sibley

Sandwich Tern – bill color of juveniles

– updated Sep 27, 2008

This photo by Greg Lavaty of Texas, generated a lot of discussion on the Texas Birds listserv recently, and brings up some interesting points and questions.

First, this is definitely a juvenile Sandwich Tern, and the bill color is pretty typical of a recently fledged bird. Here are some photos [...]