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Arctic Tern flying over the North Sea near the Farne islands in Northumberland.

An Arctic Tern bird and it's chick on the island of Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Common tern sits on a nest among pink flowers close up

An Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) on a perch south of Anchorage Alaska. The Arctic Tern breeds in the arctic regions around the world and winters in the Antarctic, making at least a 19,000 km (12,000 mi) flight between the two twice a year, mostly over open ocean; thus, this bird has the longest migration and sees more daylight than any animal on earth.

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$L 22-26cm, WS 56-62cm.\ncommonest marsh tern, breeding in freshwater marshes with patches of low, floating vegetation, often among Black-headed Gulls for protection.\nSummer visitor (mainly late April-September), winters in Africa.\n\nThis is a quite common Tern in the Netherlands in the described Habitats (Marsh area's).\nWhile the floating Habitats were disappearing (fields of Stratiotes) in the last decades, Nature Organizations have been experienced with artificial nests, with good results (see these Pictures).$