Elegant tern (Sterna elegans).
Royal Tern (Sterna maxima).
Royal Tern (Sterna maxima).
On the western edge of the San Juan Seamount, 99.1 miles from Santa Barbara, a lone Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) finds a place to rest on a drifting paddy of Giant Kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera).
Royal Tern (Sterna maxima).
An Elegant Tern (Sterna elegans) in flight.
A Royal Tern circles over a large  patch of Krill.
A flock of Elegant Terns (Sterna elegans) takes off from a Giant Kelp paddy (Macrocystis pyrifera).
Elegant Terns (Sterna elegans) in flight with a couple of Black Skimmers (Rhynchops niger) in the background, upper left.
Elegant tern (Sterna elegans).
Elegant tern (Sterna elegans).
Elegant tern (Sterna elegans).
See photo in original gallery.