A flock of eleven Elegant Terns (*Thalasseus elegans*) was resting at the Garibaldi Marina on Tillamook Bay on September 11. This is a bird of the Gulf of California and the Southern California coast. More than nine in ten of them nest on a single…

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Elegant Terns are on Tillamook Bay this week. Twenty-nine were counted on the bay on September 6, and observers have kept reporting them in the days since. For a bird that nests almost entirely on one small island in the Gulf of California, th…

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