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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 ...
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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.
Many parrots are vividly colored, and some are multi-colored. In size they range from 8 cm (3.1 in) to 1 m (3.3 ft) in length. Most of the more than 150 species in this family are found in the New World. Yellow-chevroned parakeet, Brotogeris chiriri (I) Red-crowned parrot, Amazona viridigenalis (I) Lilac-crowned parrot, Amazona finschi (I)
Sandwich tern: Northern Europe to Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas, wintering south to South Africa and Sri Lanka. Thalasseus acuflavidus: Cabot's tern: East coast of the Americas from New Jersey south to Chubut, Argentina, also wintering on the Pacific coast. Thalasseus elegans: Elegant tern
The plumage of the Inca tern is the most atypical of the group.. Terns range in size from the least tern, at 23 cm (9.1 in) in length and weighing 30–45 g (1.1–1.6 oz), [1] [2] to the Caspian tern at 48–56 cm (19–22 in), 500–700 g (18–25 oz).
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
Sandwich tern, Thalasseus sandvicensis; Elegant tern, Thalasseus elegans (near-threatened) ... The puffbirds are related to the jacamars and have the same range, but ...