Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans)

Elegant Tern (Sterna elegans)

About Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans)

Kingdom: Animals
Phylum: Chordates
Class: Birds
Order: Shorebirds and Allies
Family: Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

The elegant tern 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.

Source: Wikipedia

Lifelists

Trips

Visits

2006-09-24

Elkhorn Slough, United States of America
2007-04-11

San Diego Estuary, United States of America
2007-07-28

Crissy Field, United States of America
2007-09-23

Elkhorn Slough, United States of America
2012-08-12

Coyote Point County Park--harbor and marsh, United States of America
2012-09-07

Heron's Head Park, United States of America
2012-09-23

Heron's Head Park, United States of America
2013-08-18

Farallones Marine Sanctuary, United States of America
2014-08-23

MacKerricher SP, United States of America
2014-09-01

Pigeon Pt., United States of America
2016-08-06

Crissy Field, United States of America
2018-09-20

Oceano, United States of America
2018-09-21

Oceano, United States of America
2018-09-23

Oceano, United States of America
2018-10-13

Crissy Field, United States of America
2019-11-03

Heron's Head Park, United States of America
2019-11-09

Crissy Field, United States of America
2020-12-14

Playa Porma, Chile
2020-12-19

Constitucion, Chile
2023-10-21

Farallones Marine Sanctuary, United States of America