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 Translation for 'Sandwich tern' from English to Bulgarian
NOUN   a Sandwich tern | Sandwich terns
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Sandwich tern {noun} [Thalasseus sandvicensis, syn.: Sterna sandvicensis]
гривеста рибарка {ж}
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black tern {noun} [Chlidonias niger]
черна рибарка {ж}
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Inca tern {noun} [Larosterna inca]
икска рибарка {ж}
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roseate tern {noun} [Sterna dougallii]
езерна рибарка {ж}
гастр.
sandwich {noun}
сандвич {м}
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white-winged (black) tern {noun} [Chlidonias leucopterus]
белокрила рибарка {ж}
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bridled tern {noun} [Onychoprion anaethetus, syn.: Sterna anaethetus]
кафявокрила рибарка {ж}
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little tern {noun} [Sternula albifrons, syn.: Sterna albifrons]
Белочела рибарка {ж}
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Usage Examples English
  • The Tyuleniy island group is also an important breeding ground for the Sandwich tern ("Sterna sandvicensis").
  • These species have long thin sharp bills, usually a shade of yellow or orange except in the Sandwich tern and Cabot's tern where the bills are black with yellow tips in most subspecies.
  • Two breeds of goose overwinter on the island, greylag and pale-bellied Brent geese. Other visiting or winter-passage species include the short-eared owl and the sandwich tern.
  • As of 2022, it is considered a full species ("Thalasseus acuflavidus") by the International Ornithological Congress, although most other authorities treat it as a subspecies of the Sandwich tern ("Thalasseus sandvicensis caboti").
  • The common tern and Sandwich tern, which until about 1970 occasionally bred here, are no longer seen.

  • Eurasian curlew, whimbrel, greater flamingo, great crested tern, Sandwich tern, white-winged black tern can be spotted during February and March.
  • The Mediterranean race is a rare vagrant to Europe, and has bred in pure or mixed pairs (with Sandwich tern) in Italy, Spain and England.
  • Like all "Thalasseus" terns, the Sandwich tern feeds by plunge-diving for fish, almost invariably from the sea.
  • Other notable visitors include spoonbill, Sandwich tern and Eurasian whimbrel.
  • A longer-staying unusual visitor was "Elsie" the lesser crested tern, which visited the Farnes every summer from 1984 to 1997; during that period (paired with a male Sandwich tern) she raised several hybrid chicks and attracted several thousand birders keen to see this species in Britain.

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