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Royal Tern 2003 Aug-Nov Lancaster One 9/20 "The Rocks" (D. Farbotnik & J. Heller + m. obs.)
Royal Tern 2004 Aug-Nov Bucks An immature found after Hurricane Jeanne at Peace Valley Park 9/29 (August Mirabella). A partial band number indicated the bird had been banded as a flightless juvenile 6/25 near Kure Beach, NC
Royal Tern 2006 Aug-Nov Delaware One seen flying upriver over the Delaware River during "Ernesto Watch" on 9/2 (Jason Horn m.obs)
Royal Tern 2006 Aug-Nov Northampton One on 9/3 at Green Pond (Dustin Welch) was a 1st county record.
Royal Tern 2008 Jun-Jul Philadelphia Frank Windfelder observed the same bird at Rhawn St. on the Delaware River at 6:00 PM.
Royal Tern 2008 Jun-Jul Bucks One 7/12 on the Delaware River was a second county record (ph. Devich Farbotnik)
Royal Tern 2011 Aug-Nov Delaware 5 on the Delaware River 8/28 during Hurricane Irene (Al Guarente, no doc)
Royal Tern 2011 Aug-Nov Philadelphia one on the Delaware River 8/28 during Hurricane Irene (Todd Fellenbaum, George Armistead, doc submitted).
Royal Tern 2011 Aug-Nov Lancaster one imm. at the Conejohela Flats 8/28 during Hurricane Irene (Jerry Book, doc submitted) and one at Middlecreek W.M.A. 8/28 during Hurricane Irene (Bruce Carl, no doc)
Royal Tern 2011 Aug-Nov Chester one at Struble Lake 8/28 during Hurricane Irene (Frank and Barb Haas, no doc)
Royal Tern 2011 Aug-Nov Bucks 6 at the PennWarner Tract (Devich Farbotnik), one at Nockamixon State Park (Geoff Malosh), one at Core Creek Park (Devich Farbotnik, Bill Keim, Matt Sabatine), and one at Bristol (Gerry Dewaghe, Chris Dewaghe) all 8/28 during Hurricane Irene (all doc subm
Royal Tern 2011 Aug-Nov Berks 4 at Lake Ontelaunee 8/28 during Hurricane Irene (Rudy Keller, Katrina Knight, Ken Lebo, Matt Wlasniewski, et al.)
Royal Tern 2012 Aug-Nov Philadelphia 5 at Pennypack on the Delaware 10/30 (ph. Tom Johnson, et al., doc submitted).
Royal Tern 2012 Aug-Nov Bucks one at Nockamixon State Park 10/31 (Bill Etter, Ben Davies, doc submitted)
Royal Tern 2019 Aug-Nov Carbon one juvenile was rescued from the Beltzville SP dam 9/13 but rehabilitation was unsuccessful (fide Franklin Klock, no doc).
Royal Tern 2020 Aug-Nov Philadelphia one at John Heinz N.W.R. 10/21 (Rebecca Syring, doc submitted) and one at the Army Corps of Engineers compound 10/25 (Holger Pflicke, et al., no doc).
Royal Tern 2020 Mar-May Delaware one at Governor Printz Park 5/29 (Kenneth Rieker), doc submitted.
Royal Tern 2020 Aug-Nov Delaware one at Hog Island Road 8/11 (Al Guarente, Rob Fergus, doc submitted) and another there 10/25 (Debbie Beer, Adrian Binns, Al Guarente, Zach Millen, Ross Gallardy, Melissa Gallardy, no doc)
Royal Tern 2020 Aug-Nov Bucks one at the Penn-Warner Tract 8/4 (Jim Hartley, no doc)
Royal Tern 2021 Jun-Jul Erie breeding-plumage individual with Caspian Terns 6/19 (Mary Birdsong, photo).
Royal Tern 2021 Jun-Jul Delaware one 7/9 from Delaware River/Hog Island Rd following tropical storm (Jason Horn, Steve Schmit, m.ob.) and 7/25 (Al Guarente)
Royal Tern 2024 Jun-Jul Delaware two at Hog Island Rd 7/5 (Steve Schmit, no doc).