#1427 · 🐦 birds

Great Crested Tern

🇳🇱 Grote Kuifstern ·Thalasseus bergii

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Jens Sommer-Knudsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Caiden · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Caiden · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Bird Explorers · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © J Magoo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. © Jens Sommer-Knudsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
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8. © Tan Kok Hui · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Tan Kok Hui · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Jenny Donald · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 21,559iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
21,559 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1823 (203 years ago).