#sterna paradisaea

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Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

© Volker Hesse

[fullfrontalbirds]

Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

© Ryan Shean

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Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

© Bryan Calk

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Arctic Tern

Photo: Ingeborg van Leeuwen

"Famous as a long-distance champion: some Arctic Terns may migrate farther than any other birds, going from the high Arctic to the Antarctic. Breeds on coasts and tundra from New England, Washington, and Britain north to the northernmost limits of land, and spends the rest of the year at sea. Its migrations take it to every ocean, and to the vicinity of every continent. In North America, seldom seen from land south of its breeding grounds."

- Audubon Field Guide

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Day 24.  Arctic tern - Sterna paradisaea

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Ah, white feathers, my old nemesis. 

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Reference photo from eBird (pretty much a direct reference this time, I started late, got lazy, and couldn’t be bothered thinking up a pose).

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sterna paradisaea

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Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)

© Christopher Mortensen