Here's a different look at this iconic bird. In this frame he was perched on a canopy overlooking (optimistically) the fish market on the pier. The Inca Tern (Larosterna inca) is endemic to the Humboldt Current, which rakes the coasts of Chile and Peru with cold water from the Antarctic. The upwelling of nutrient-rich water associated with the current has made that coastline one of the world's most productive fisheries, and thus a prime habitat for plunge-feeding birds like the Inca Tern, Peruvian Booby and Peruvian Pelican. Unfortunately, the fish stocks are now in decline due to overfishing in past decades, combined with intermittent disruption of the current by El Nino events. Thus those three species are now in decline. In 2009 the Peruvian Government created an off-shore reserve for the protection of the Inca Tern and other species.
D7200, 500f4, ISO 3200, 1/1250s @ f/6.3 manual.