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Ian Fulton | profile | all galleries >> African Galleries >> Gabon 2010 >> Birds of Gabon - Individual Species galleries >> Royal Tern tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

African Darter | African Finfoot | African Pied Hornbill | Black-headed Bee-eater | Blue-breasted Bee-eater | Blue-spotted Wood-Dove | Cassin's Flycatcher | Cattle Egret | Chocolate-backed Kingfisher | Congo Moor Chat | Damara Tern | Forbes's Plover | Giant Kingfisher | Gosling's Apalis | Hartlaub's Duck | Lesser Striped Swallow | Little Greenbul | Long-legged Pipit | Palm-nut Vulture | Pel's Fishing Owl | Pin-tailed Whydah | Royal Tern | Rufous-naped (Malbrant's) Lark | Slender-billed Weaver | Sooty Flycatcher | Swamp Bulbul | Swamp Nightjar | Vermiculated Fishing Owl | Vieillot's Black Weaver | White-crested Hornbill | White-crested Tiger Heron | Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird

Royal Tern

(sterna maxima)
The Royal Tern is an elegant large tern found in coastal waters of West Africa. We found a good sized flock of them on St Catherine's beach at Loango NP where the Iguela Lagoon flows out to the sea in a narrow river mouth.
Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon
Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon		 Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon
Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon		 Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon
Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon
Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon
Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon		 Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon
Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon		 Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon
Royal Tern, St Catherine's Beach-Loango NP, Gabon

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