Sandwich Tern

The Sandwich Tern is another bird we observed on the gorgeous beaches of Cayo Coco Cuba. Other terns commonly seen are Royal, Caspian and Least Terns.

The Sandwich Tern is a sleek, medium-sized tern with a ragged black crest and a gleaming black bill with a sharp yellow tip. It's smaller and slimmer than a Royal Tern, a species it often nests alongside in busy, shrieking colonies along the barrier islands of the southeastern U.S.

Rarely found inland or out to sea, this is a bird of ocean shores and estuaries, where it hunts small schooling fish.