Sooty Tern, Sterna fuscata, is a pelagic tern occurring in all tropical and subtropical seas rarely coming ashore except to breed on oceanic islands (Harrison 1983). This is the most abundant tern with a world population exceeding 14 million birds (Hockey et. al. 2005). Sooty terns are considered by Hockey et. al. (2005) to be regular visitors to the Southern African sub-region occurring off the north eastern coast KwaZulu Natal and Mozambique. There are also several inland records from the Lowveld, Eastern Zimbabwe, Swaziland and KwaZulu Natal following cyclones in the Indian Ocean (Ryan 1997 and Hockey et. al. 2005). The western most records for Sooty Tern in Southern Africa are from Dyer Island and Strandfontein in the Western Cape (Ryan 1997 and Hockey et. al. 2005).