Bridled Tern

islets throughout Caribbean Sea from Bahamas (formerly also Pelican Shoal, Florida Keys), e Yucatan Pen., e Belize, Bay Is. (n of c Honduras) to Lesser Antilles and n Venezuela and Tobago; off s Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal and Gulf of Guinea is. (nw, wc Africa)

tropical Indian Ocean islands: Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Somalia to Tanzania, smaller Inner Is. (ne Seychelles) and Barren I. (w of c Madagascar, w Indian Ocean); Chagos Arch. (nc Indian Ocean), Lakshadweep (w of c India), Vengurla Rocks (w of s Maharashtra, w India), and Adam's Bridge islands (between India and Sri Lanka)

tropical and subtropical e Indian and w Pacific oceans: islands w of Thailand and Malaysia, in Indonesian Arch., Okinawa and Yaeyama is. (Ryukyu Is.=Nansei Shoto, s Japan), Taiwan, islands off e China, Philippines, New Guinea and w, n, ne Australian satellites, Admiralty Is. (nw Bismarck Arch.), Rennell (s Solomon Is.), New Caledonia and Fiji (sw Polynesia) to Samoa (c Polynesia)

islets w of Nayarit and Guerrero (wc Mexico), Gulf of Fonseca (w of Honduras), Guanacaste (nw Costa Rica), Los Frailes del Sur (off sc Panama) and Islote Pelado (off sw Ecuador)