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The elegant tern (Thalasseus elegans) is a tern in the family Laridae.It breeds on the Pacific coast of southern California in the United States and western Mexico, and migrates south to Peru, Ecuador and Chile for the northern winter; in the late summer and fall, some also disperse north to Oregon and more rarely Washington.
Breeding plumage Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden. The royal tern nests on island beaches or isolated beaches with limited predators. It lays one or two eggs, usually in a scrape, an area on the ground where a tern has made a small hole to lay its eggs. In some cases, tern eggs are laid directly on the ground, not in a scrape.
[5] [51] The Inca tern nests in crevices, caves and disused burrows, such as that of a Humboldt penguin. [52] The white tern is unique in that it lays its single egg on a bare tree branch. [53] Tropical species usually lay just one egg, but two or three is typical in cooler regions if there is an adequate food supply.
The black-capped chickadee is the state bird of Massachusetts. This list of birds of Massachusetts includes species documented in the U.S. state of Massachusetts and accepted by the Massachusetts Avian Records Committee (MARC). As of July 2023, there are 516 species included in the official list. Of them, 194 are on the review list (see below), six have been introduced to North America, three ...
The orange-billed tern in Norfolk. Birding World 15(6): 244-246. This article documents a bird seen in Norfolk, England in summer 2002 which resembled both elegant and lesser crested terns to some degree; the article is accompanied by photos of this bird and a presumed elegant tern seen in a Florida tern colony in 2002. Millington, Richard (2002).
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.
That’s a state record for nest size and well above the 50-to-100-egg average for the species. Average for pythons is 50 to 100 eggs, experts say. This nest was 111 eggs.
White-cheeked tern (charrán arábigo), Sterna repressa (A) Sandwich tern (charrán patinegro), Thalasseus sandvicensis; Elegant tern (charrán elegante), Thalasseus elegans (A) near-threatened; Lesser crested tern (charrán bengalí), Thalasseus bengalensis (A – Canary Islands) West African crested tern (charrán real), Thalasseus ...