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Arctic tern
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A small, slender gray-and-white bird with angular wings, the Arctic Tern is well known for its long yearly migration. It travels from its Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctica where it enjoys the Antarctic summer, covering around 25,000 miles. Breeding birds sport a full black cap, short red legs, and a red bill. Arctic Terns are social birds, foraging in groups and nesting on the ground in colonies. They often rest on ice and fly on graceful and buoyant wings.
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Sterna paradisaea, Arctic tern, family Laridae has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. It is strongly migratory, seeing two summers each year as it migrates along a convoluted route from its northern breeding grounds to the Antarctic coast for the southern summer and back again about six months later. They are long-lived, many reaching fifteen to thirty years of age. They eat mainly fish and small marine…
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The arctic terms are the most majestic birds to watch but boy are they grumpy - at least they were leaving my head alone as they focused their aggression on each other
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