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Birds of Florida, Sandwich Tern

Published on August 17, 2011 By Gordon Campbell

There’s an elegant little bird with a peculiar name.  When a Google searched failed to define the name’s history a quick check of my copy of Edward S. Gruson’s “Words for Birds” revealed that “Sandwich” is a “Latinized version of the English village where the first one was captured and scientifically documented”.  Nothing to do [...]