Yellow-billed Tern

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When to see the Yellow-billed Tern

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-billed Tern

The map shades 14 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Costa Rica.

About the Yellow-billed Tern

The yellow-billed tern is a small seabird found in South America. It is a species of tern in the family Laridae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, and freshwater lakes.

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Easily confused with

Fairy TernSternula nereisThe fairy tern is a small tern with a white body and light bluish-grey wings. Peruvian TernSternula lorataThe Peruvian tern is a very small species with a length of about 24 cm (9.4 in). Damara TernSternula balaenarumAt 23 centimetres or 9.1 inches in length the Damara tern is a small, rather pale tern.

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