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Elegant Tern Thalasseus elegans Scientific name definitions

Gary P. Burness, Kara L. Lefevre, and Charles T. Collins
Version: 1.0 — Published March 4, 2020
Text last updated January 1, 1999

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Burness, G. P., K. L. Lefevre, and C. T. Collins (2020). Elegant Tern (Thalasseus elegans), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.eleter1.01