Can you please help with the ID of these Terns and Gull/s spotted in the Gambia. (1 Viewer)

[Colin Hose]

 

[Butty]

Date?

 

[Colin Hose]

Date?

Sorry, the photo was taken on 27th November.

 

[Butty]

Sandwich terns at front, grey-headed gull at bottom right (if I believe the white-looking iris is real), Caspian terns at the back and right, and... err, yes... the tricky ones... royal terns, I guess - unless the one at far left cowering under a Caspian's bill is lesser crested.

 

[Colin Hose]

Sandwich terns at front, grey-headed gull at bottom right (if I believe the white-looking iris is real), Caspian terns at the back and right, and... err, yes... the tricky ones... royal terns, I guess - unless the one at far right cowering under a Caspian's bill is lesser crested.

Thank you Butty.

 

[Butty]

Thank you Butty.

You snuck in 2 secs before i corrected my lefts and rights

 

[lou salomon]

and a grey-headed gull front right.

 

[Butty]

grey-headed gull at bottom right

! 👍🏻

 

[Brian J Small]

NB - 'Royal Tern' in Gambia is now West African Crested Tern Thalasseus albididorsalis

Brian

 

[sicklebill]

What is the large gull with the dark head behind the Grey-headed Gull?

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

I think its another Caspian Tern, please note the right scruffy black mask behind eye.
And I think the others before had mentioned, its one of those helpfull threads to me, thank you to all.

 

[Butty]

another Caspian Tern

Yes. Big buggers.