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  2. Arctic tern - Wikipedia

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    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 (as far south as Brittany ), Asia, and North America (as far south as Massachusetts ).

  3. Portal:Birds/Selected species/12 - Wikipedia

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    The arctic tern is K-selected, caring for and aggressively defending a small number of young. Parents feed them fish for a considerable time, and help them fly south to winter. Arctic terns are long-lived birds, with many reaching twenty years of age. They eat mainly fish and small marine invertebrates. The species has an estimated one million ...

  4. Sterna - Wikipedia

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    the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America (as far south as Brittany and Massachusetts). River tern: Sterna aurantia: inland rivers from Iran east into the Indian Subcontinent and further to Myanmar to Thailand Black-bellied tern: Sterna acuticauda: Pakistan, Nepal, India and Bangladesh, with a separate range in ...

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  6. Portal:Birds/Selected species/2007-18 - Wikipedia

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    The arctic tern is a seabird of the tern family Sternidae. It has a circumpolar distribution, breeding colonially in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. The species is strongly migratory, seeing two summers each year as it migrates from its northern breeding grounds to the oceans around Antarctica and back each ...

  7. Common tern - Wikipedia

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    The common tern may attempt to steal fish from Arctic terns, [98] but might itself be harassed by kleptoparasitic skuas, [99] laughing gulls, [100] roseate terns, [101] or by other common terns while bringing fish back to its nest. [98] In one study, two males whose mates had died spent much time stealing food from neighbouring broods. [102]

  8. Bird migration - Wikipedia

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    The Arctic tern holds the long-distance migration record for birds, travelling between Arctic breeding grounds and the Antarctic each year. Some species of tubenoses , such as albatrosses , circle the Earth, flying over the southern oceans, while others such as Manx shearwaters migrate 14,000 km (8,700 mi) between their northern breeding ...

  9. Terns' oral weight-loss drug shows promise in early study ...

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    (Reuters) -Terns Pharmaceuticals said its oral obesity drug reduced weight by an average of 4.9% in an early-stage study, joining drugmakers vying for a share of the lucrative weight-loss ...