Royal Tern
Thalasseus maximus(Boddaert, P, 1783)
English (US) Royal Tern
The Royal Tern (Thalasseus maximus) 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 coastal southern California and Gulf of California to Sinaloa and Islas Tres Marias, and Atlantic from Virginia southward to Florida, Gulf of Mexico to s Texas, and Caribbean including peripheral islands southeastward to French Guiana, and disjunctly coastal southern Brazil, Uruguay, and east-central ArgentinaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Thalasseus maximus
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- IUCN Red List
- Not Evaluated
- English (US)
- Royal Tern
- Described by
- (Boddaert, P, 1783)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Sterna maxima
- Described by
- (Boddaert, P, 1783)
- Type locality
- Cayenne, ex Daubenton, pi. 988.
- Original description
- Table des planches enluminéez d'histoire naturelle de M. D'Aubenton p.58
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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Greater Crested Tern
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Lesser Crested Tern
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Snowy-crowned Tern
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Arctic Tern
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