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The elegant tern (Thalasseus elegans) is a tern in the family Laridae. It breeds on the Pacific coasts of the southern United States and Mexico and winters south to Peru , Ecuador and Chile . This species breeds in very dense colonies on coasts and islands, including Isla Rasa [ 2 ] and Montague Island (Mexico) , [ 3 ] and exceptionally inland ...
Large-billed tern, Phaetusa simplex (H) Gull-billed tern, Gelochelidon nilotica (V) Inca tern, Larosterna inca; Black tern, Chlidonias niger (V) Common tern, Sterna hirundo; Arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea; South American tern, Sterna hirundinacea; Antarctic tern, Sterna vittata (H) Snowy-crowned tern, Sterna trudeaui; Elegant tern, Thalasseus ...
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Thalasseus, the crested terns, is a genus of eight species of terns in the family Laridae.. It has a worldwide distribution, and many of its species are abundant and well-known birds in their ranges.
Orange-billed tern is a name applied to a group of three large terns in the genus Thalasseus with orange bills, which are quite similar in appearance and often considered difficult to identify, namely: Royal tern, Thalasseus maximus; Lesser crested tern, Thalasseus bengalensis; Elegant tern, Thalasseus elegans
List of birds of Santa Cruz County, California.The county is in Northern California, located on the California coast, including northern Monterey Bay, and west of the San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley.
In parts of its range, the royal tern could be confused with the elegant tern, but the elegant tern has a longer but slenderer, more curved, bill, and shows more white on the forehead in winter. Vagrants in Europe need careful documentation to distinguish them from the same-sized West African crested tern , which has also been recorded in Europe.
The Sandwich tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis) [2] is a tern in the family Laridae.It is very closely related to the lesser crested tern (T. bengalensis), Chinese crested tern (T. bernsteini), Cabot's tern (T. acuflavidus), and elegant tern (T. elegans) and has been known to interbreed with both elegant and lesser crested.