Featured Article: Elegant Tern
Identification
39–43 cm (15¼-17 in); a medium-large tern
- Pale grey upperparts
- White underparts
- Black legs
- Long, slender orange bill, often with yellow at tip and more so in winter
Distribution
The Americas: Breeds on the Pacific coasts of southern California, Baja California and mainly around the Gulf of Mexico in Mexico. Post breeding dispersal both north and east, where vagrants recorded to British Columbia, Texas and very rarely as far as Florida.
