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Elegant Terns

Thalasseus elegans

Photo by Jellis
Published on Project Noah
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37.7187, -122.106

Field Notes

Description:

Medium sized Tern. During breeding they will have a full black shaggy cap and an orange bill. Non breeding and immature will have less black shaggy feathers on forehead.

Habitat:

Found mostly on the coast. These were found in the bay.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (5)
Jellis
I've seen drafts do that. Unfinished spottings would disappear and later may or may not see on the app. I no longer have the app.
Malcolm Wilton-Jones
I did a clear out several months ago, all duplicate spottings found were notified in comments, and later removed if the user did not respond after a week or so. It is not uncommon for some submissions to get lost in Google cloud services for a while, only to reappear later after the user has reposted, a hazard of free to use programs using their low-level cheap services which have severe limitations on hourly and daily usage. https://cloud.google.com
Jellis
The only other one I have was taken years ago in a different location
Jellis
Which previous spotting?

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California Coastal Wildlife Watch
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Birds of the World
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Global Flight
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2016

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