The
blue-billed white tern (
Gygis candida) is a small tropical
seabird in the family
Laridae, occurring across the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Formerly treated as a subspecies within the
white tern complex,
conspecific with the the
Atlantic white tern (
G. alba) and the
little white tern (
G. microrhyncha), it is now generally recognised as a distinct species. First described by
Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789, it is an all-white tern with dark eyes, a black bill with a blue base, and slaty-blue legs. Two subspecies are recognised, ranging from the Seychelles and Maldives to Hawaii and the Pitcairn Islands. Unusually, chicks occasionally fall prey to
Aldabra giant tortoises in the Seychelles. This blue-billed white tern of the subspecies
G. c. candida was photographed in flight at
Muri Lagoon, on
Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.
Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp
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