Great Crested Tern 🐦
Species Profile
Thalasseus bergii
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Great Crested Tern
The greater crested tern ( Thalasseus bergii ), also called crested tern or swift tern , is a tern in the family Laridae that nests in dense colonies on coastlines and islands in the tropical and subtropical Old World. Its five subspecies breed in the area from South Africa around the Indian Ocean to the central Pacific and Australia, all populations dispersing widely from the breeding range after nesting. This large tern is closely related to the royal and...
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