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    (c) Sean, all rights reserved

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    (c) pelagicgraf, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Bridget Spencer, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Elan Zucchetti, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Анна Голубева, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)

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    (c) mrprice75, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Arctic Tern

Sterna paradisaea

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Birds
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About

The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America (as far south as Brittany and Massachusetts). The species 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. Recent...

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