Mystery bird: Inca tern, Larosterna inca  This mystery bird
comes with a bit of a twist: If you woke up on a beach and saw
this bird, where in the world would you be? (includes video)
Inca tern, Larosterna inca (protonym, Sterna Inca), photographed
at Bristol Zoo, England.  Image: Adrian Pingstone, September
2005 (public domain) [velociraptorize].  Question: This mystery
bird comes with a bit of a twist: Instead of me telling you
where this bird was photographed, you tell me! If you had been
caught in a terrible storm before being shipwrecked, and then,
whilst sitting on the beach, you spied this bird, where in the
world would you be?  Response: This lovely seabird is a captive
Inca tern, Larosterna inca, the only member of its genus. This
bird is another species that I think of as a "flying fieldmark"
because there is nothing else in the world that looks quite like
it.  This species' range is restricted to the Humboldt Current,
which is a cold, low-salinity oceanic current that flows north
from the southern