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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 ...
Thalasseus, the crested terns, is a genus of eight species of medium-large to large terns in the family Laridae.. The species have a worldwide distribution in temperate and tropical seas, mostly between about 43° N and S latitude, but to 60° N in the warm waters of the North Atlantic Current in the eastern North Atlantic Ocean; they do not occur in colder arctic or antarctic waters.
Calls of adults and young, Norfolk, England. 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.
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.
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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
The Elegant tern also differs in a slightly longer, slenderer bill, while Chinese crested tern differs in a black tip to the bill and Sandwich tern a black bill with a yellow tip. [ 7 ] Juvenile lesser crested terns resemble same-age Sandwich terns, but with a yellow-orange bill, and paler overall, with only faint dark crescents on the mantle ...
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