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UK, Stockton-on-Tees. A bird that sounds like a Sandwich Tern? (1 Viewer)

jnobel

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I am very confused!

I just heard a bird calling while it flew over (it's dark, so I didn't see it). The flight call sounded like Sandwich Tern to me. But we live about 10 miles from the sea...

Any suggestions as to what other bird this might have been?

Thanks,

Jan
 
Still very likely a Sandwich Tern. Sandwich, Little and Common Terns are regulalry recorded crossing the Pennines. They've all been reported at Hurworth Burn Reservoir which is ore than ten miles from the sea as well.
 
Have heard young Black Headed Gulls making a broadly similar call to a Sandwich Tern recently. Not quite as raucous but a simlar sort of tone.
 
Thanks for the replies. As Phil said, the call was quite unmistakable, but I wasn't aware of the overland migration. A rather unexpected garden tick!
 
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