Elegant Tern
Thalasseus elegans(Gambel, W, 1849)
English (US) Elegant Tern
The Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Laridae (Skimmers, Noddies, Terns, and Gulls) in the order Charadriiformes.
Range: breeds islands off southwestern California and Baja California and Gulf of California (northwestern Mexico); post-breeding dispersal to coastal northern California, and wintering southward along Pacific coast to central ChileRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Thalasseus elegans
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Elegant Tern
- Described by
- (Gambel, W, 1849)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Sterna elegans
- Described by
- (Gambel, W, 1849)
- Type locality
- Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4(1848) p.129
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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