Chinese crested tern [SEP] parent taxon
Chinese crested tern
The Chinese crested tern ("Thalasseus bernsteini") is a tern in the family Laridae, closely related to the Sandwich tern, "T. sandvicensis", and the lesser crested tern, "T. bengalensis". It is most similar to the former, differing only in the bill pattern, which is the reverse of the Sandwich tern's, being yellow with a black tip. From the lesser crested tern, which it overlaps in wintering distribution, it can be told by the white rump and paler
gull
- Glaucous gull
- Iceland gull
- Thayer's gull
- European herring gull
- American herring gull
- Vega gull
- Caspian gull
- Yellow-legged gull
- Armenian gull
- Slaty-backed gull
- Lesser black-backed gull
- Gull-billed tern
- Caspian tern
- Royal tern
- Greater crested tern
- Elegant tern
- Lesser crested tern
- Chinese crested tern
- Sandwich tern
- Cabot's tern
- Little