Thalasseus elegans
- 53.5 × 38 mm
- Clutch: 1–2 eggs
Breeds in United States, Mexico
White to buff to pinkish to pale maroon, spotted and blotched with brown, black, gray, and purplish.
Sources of information
- Size
- Average of 27 eggs: Bent, Life Histories of North American Gulls and Terns (U.S. National Museum Bulletin 113, 1921), p. 220.
- Description
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds: Elegant Tern, Life History.
- Clutch
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology, All About Birds.
- Shape
- Drawn from the length and width, with the taper estimated from the typical eggs of its group (how these eggs are drawn).
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