Most of the adult elegant terns on this page were at Bolsa Chica wetlands in coastal Orange County, California, but the young birds (with blotchy oppressed) were at Moss Landing in Monterey County.   Other pages have pictures of resting royal terns, royal terns in flight, courting elegant terns in flight (also here), Forster's terns, least terns, and Caspian terns,

• Canon 10D, 1DII, or 7D2; 500 mm f4 IS lens plus 2X converter or 800 mm IS lens plus 1.4X converter or 100-400 zoom, fill-in flash (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2015)