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Royal Tern

Thalasseus maximus

Photo by Tamarac Denis
Published on Project Noah
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28.9327, -95.3024

Field Notes

Habitat:

On beach, Quintana, Texas

Notes:

Caspian terns among twenty in larger group with other gulls.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (1)
DavidP.Craig
As a published expert of Caspian Tern behavior and ecology I can confirm EnvUnlimited's opinion that these are not Caspians and are as EnvUnlimited's suggest Royals. Great images like these make the ID easy. The area certainly could have Caspian Terns as well, so the guess was reasonable.

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Birds of Texas
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Texas Mid-coast Wildlife & Plants
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PublishedMarch 19, 2013

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