Sandwich Tern Images, Facts and Information:
Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Sandwich Terns are medium sized with white bodies, gray upperparts, black legs, black bills with a yellow tip and black caps that are shaggy.
- Sandwich Terns are primarily migratory though some populations are year round residents. They are found in North America along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.
- Their preferred habitats are bays, estuaries, seacoasts, exposed sandbars and mudflats.
- Sandwich Terns eat fish and some small invertebrates.
- Sandwich Terns lay 1 to 3 eggs which hatch in 21 to 29 days. Both sexes incubate and they are monogamous, colonial nesters.
- A group of Sandwich Terns is known as a “hogey”.
- Sandwich Terns can live to be 24 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Sandwich Tern photos.
Mating Sandwich Terns
Title: Mating Sandwich Terns
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/12/2009
Mating Sandwich Terns Pano
Title: Mating Sandwich Terns Pano
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/12/2009
Sandwich Terns mating on the north beach
Title: Sandwich Terns mating on the north beach
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/12/2009
Sandwich Terns – Love is in the air
Title: Sandwich Terns – Love is in the air
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 4/12/2009
Mixed flock of Brown Pelicans, Black Skimmers, Gulls and Terns
Title: Mixed flock of Brown Pelicans, Black Skimmers, Gulls and Terns
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 1/6/2009
Sandwich Tern and a pastel sky
Title: Sandwich Tern in flight with prey
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 1/6/2009
Displaying Sandwich Terns in low light
Title: Displaying Sandwich Terns in low light
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/9/2008
Sandwich Tern at Fort De Soto
Title: Sandwich Tern at Fort De Soto
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/7/2008
Sandwich Tern pair
Title: Sandwich Tern pair
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 9/4/2008
Sandwich Tern against a blue sky
Title: Sandwich Tern against a blue sky
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/28/2008
Young Sandwich Tern begging
Title: Young Sandwich Tern begging
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/28/2008
Sandwich Tern flyby
Title: Sandwich Tern flyby
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/28/2008
Sandwich Tern on the wing over the Gulf of Mexico
Title: A Sandwich Tern on the wing over the Gulf of Mexico
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/28/2008
Immature Sandwich Tern in flight
Title: Immature Sandwich Tern in flight
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 8/28/2008
Sandwich Tern in flight with prey
Title: Sandwich Tern in flight with prey
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/13/2008
Sandwich Tern on the hunt
Title: Sandwich Tern on the hunt
Location: Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Florida
Date: 6/13/2008