MOURC Proceedings Archive - Gulls, Terns Accepted
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This is the 1981 to present Records Committee Proceedings archive for
The Loon, journal of the Minnesota Ornithologists' Union.
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Proceedings
Species: Gulls, Terns
Black-legged Kittiwake
Ivory Gull
Sabine's Gull
Black-headed Gull
Little Gull
Ross's Gull
Laughing Gull
Short-billed Gull
California Gull
Iceland Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Slaty-backed Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Least Tern
Gull-billed Tern
[White-winged Tern]
Common Tern
Arctic Tern
Forster's Tern
[Royal Tern]
Sandwich Tern
Elegant Tern
[Black Skimmer]

Elegant Tern (A) (Thalasseus elegans)Start Date 0000-00-00
RefFirstLastLocationCounty23CommentStatus
180:52007-06-28Little Pelican Island, Leech LakeCass(record #2007-050, vote 10-0). Extraordinary inland occurrence of this primarily coastal species (The Loon 80:14-15). Multiple images were obtained, many with direct comparison to Caspian and Common terns. First state record. ● Jaeger sp. (Stercorarius sp.), 15 July 2007, Leech Lake, Cass County (record #2007-062, vote 7-0). Accepted
avian
information
2007-06-28Cass6/28 Cass (first state record) (first county record)
First state record 6/28 Cass (Little Pelican I. in Leech Lake) ph. †SMe (The Loon 80:14–15).
80:14-152008indexMinnesota's First Elegant Tern
 
 One summer record (2007). One additional fall record of T. elegans/maximus (2023).

Notes:

The information in the above table comes from several different sources. The count in column 1 indicates which of the sources is considered the primary source.
'Accepted' MOURC entries from The MOURC Proceedings
'Not Accepted' or 'Rejected' MOURC entry from The MOURC Proceedings
Accepted MOU records assembled by David Cahlander
Sighting records for ()
Avian information from the occurrence maps, in dark red, assembled by Robert Janssen. Seasonal report for the species/season published in The Loon or The Flicker has been added.
Information from The Loon index assembled by Anthony Hertzel and David Cahlander