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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Chordates
  4. Birds
  5. Gulls, Buttonquails, Sandpipers, Plovers and Allies
  6. Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
  7. True Terns
  8. Crested Terns

genus

Crested Terns

Thalasseus

Includes
3 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Royal Tern native
  • Sandwich Tern native
  • Great Crested Tern present
  • Elegant Tern native
  • West African Crested Tern
  • Sandwich × Elegant Tern

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native crested terns All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Royal Tern Thalasseus maximus 45,572 observations
  • Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis 26,184 observations
  • Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans 10,027 observations

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