There were three species of tern in Sandy Bay on Sunday last (7th November), which might well be a Kerry first for the month of November - a Black Tern, 4 Sandwich Terns, and a juvenile Common Tern.
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Juvenile Common Tern, Sandy Bay, 7th October 2021 (Michael O'Clery).
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Going by the records on the increasingly useful IrishBirding website (HERE) there were only 16 Irish records of Common Tern in November reported to the website in the whole of Ireland, from 2008 (including this one, the only Kerry one shown). There were 7 records of Black Tern during the same period.
