Large-billed Tern (Phaetusa simplex)

Argentina, Aruba, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 25,000 - 100,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
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Large-billed Tern (Phaetusa simplex) [XC303141]
by Ricardo Jos\u00e9 Mitidieri from Laguna Pelegrino, Caquet\u00e0, Colombia (call)

Large-billed Tern (Phaetusa simplex) [XC415991]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil (call)

Subspecies
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

simplex (Gmelin, 1789) - Eastern Colombia east to Trinidad, and south through Amazonia; western Ecuador.
chloropoda (Vieillot, 1819) - Basins of R Paraguay and R Paraná south-west to north-central Argentina (Santiago del Estero, very rarely Cordoba). Non-breeding visitor to Uruguay.

References
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Files:

JPG files for Large-billed Tern (Phaetusa simplex) - 10 files

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