Blue-billed White-Tern
Gygis candida
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,531
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The blue-billed white tern (Gygis candida) is a small seabird found in Pacific and Indian oceans. This species was previously considered as conspecific with the Atlantic white tern (Gygis alba) and the little white tern (Gygis microrhyncha), but is now recognised as a separate species. It is known as manu-o-kū in Hawaiian. In the Cook Islands, it is known as the kakaia.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Blue-billed white tern”.