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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 ).
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English: Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) protect their offspring extremely aggressively by very quick drop-downs from a stationary flight over their enemies. Other birds often benefit from this behavior by breeding very close to the Arctic terns.
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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 ...
The northernmost and southernmost breeders are the Arctic tern and Antarctic tern respectively. [ 5 ] [ 45 ] Many terns breeding in temperate zones are long-distance migrants , and the Arctic tern sees more annual daylight than any other animal as it migrates from its northern breeding grounds to Antarctic waters, a return journey of more than ...
An adult roseate tern catches a sand eel to deliver to a recently fledged chick. The bird was photographed on an unnamed island between Tuckernuck and Muskeget islands to the west of Nantucket.
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 ...