Photo: Nicholas Atamas via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5 — free for commercial reuse.
About the Royal Tern
The royal tern (Thalasseus maximus) is a tern in the family Laridae. The species is endemic to the Americas, though vagrants have been identified in Europe.
We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads.
xeno-canto lists 145 recordings for this species: 1 CC BY-NC-SA. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is
kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
As soon as someone uploads a freely licensed recording, we mirror it and the player appears here.
