Stock photography picture of Sandwich tern with sand eel at Colony on North Norfolk Coast

AXBHDH - Licenced Caption Sandwich tern with sand eel at Colony on North Norfolk Coast Description The Sandwich tern is a very white tern, with a black cap on its head, a long black bill with a yellow tip and short black legs. In flight it shows grey wedges on its wings tips and it has a short forked tail. In the UK, many of the important colonies survive because they are on nature reserves. There are colonies of Sandwich terns scattered around the UK coasts including the North Norfolk coast; Minsmere, Suffolk; and Dungeness, Kent.