The elegant tern [2] ( lat. Thalasseus elegans ) is a species of sea birds from the family of gulls (Laridae) [1] , common in North and South America.
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Body length 39–43 cm, wingspan 76–81 cm, weight about 260 g. Beak 53–69 mm long, longer than the head, thin and pointed. The tail is deeply forked. Sexual dimorphism is not pronounced.
This bird nests in dense colonies on the Pacific coast of the southern United States and Mexico, and migrates to Peru , Ecuador, and Chile for the winter.
It feeds on small schooling fish, mainly Californian anchovy ( Engraulis mordax ), less often crustaceans.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Coursers, noddies, gulls, terns, auks, sandgrouse : [ eng ] / F. Gill & D. Donsker (Eds). // IOC World Bird List (v 8.1). - 2018. - DOI : 10.14344 / IOC.ML.8.1 . (Checked March 22, 2018) .
- ↑ Boehme RL , Flint V. Ye. The five-language dictionary of animal names. Birds. Latin, Russian, English, German, French / Under total. ed. Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang, "RUSSO", 1994. - p. 92. - 2030 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00643-0 .
Literature
- Gary P. Burness, Kara Lefevre, Charles T. Collins. Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans) , in A. Poole (Hrsg.): The Birds of North America Online, Cornell Laboratories of Ornithology, Ithaca 1999, DOI : 10.2173 / bna.404 .
- Klaus Malling Olsen, Hans Larsson. Terns of Europe and North America, Princeton University Press, Princeton / New Jersey 1995, ISBN 0-691-04387-6 .
- Gerald S. Tuck, Hermann Heinzel. Die Meeresvögel der Welt, Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg / Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-490-07818-7 .