White-cheeked Tern

When to see the White-cheeked Tern

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 8 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the White-cheeked Tern

The map shades 18 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in South Africa, Somalia, Mayotte.

About the White-cheeked Tern

The white-cheeked tern is a species of tern in the family Laridae. It is found around the coasts on the Red Sea, around the Horn of Africa to Kenya, in the Persian Gulf and along the Iranian coast to Pakistan and western India.

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Easily confused with

Antarctic TernSterna vittataThe Antarctic tern is a medium-sized tern ranging from 35 to 40 cm (14 to 16 in) in length with a wingspan of 74 to 79 cm (29 to 31 in). Black-bellied TernSterna acuticaudaThe black-bellied tern grows to a length of 32 to 35 cm (13 to 14 in). Kerguelen TernSterna virgataThe Kerguelen tern is a tern of the Southern Hemisphere.