";s:4:"text";s:2045:" They dive towards the water picking off fish just below the surface. Breeding birds sport a full black cap, short red legs, and a red bill. between robin and crow. These small, inconspicuous seabirds fly from the Arctic to the Antarctic every year . Larger than a Least Tern, smaller than a Caspian Tern. They have a small round head with a steep forehead and extremely short legs. Arctic Terns are slender terns with long, angular wings and pointed wingtips. The Common Tern is the most widespread tern in North America, spending its winters as far south as Argentina and Chile.
The Arctic tern flies from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again each year, while the Inaccessible Island rail—the world's smallest flightless bird—never leaves its five-square-mile island. An arctic tern in Farne Islands The shape of its wing can provide clues as to which birds are long-distance travellers and which ones are short-range fliers, according to research.
It travels from its Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctica where it enjoys the Antarctic summer, covering around 25,000 miles. It travels from its Arctic breeding grounds to Antarctica where it enjoys the Antarctic summer, covering around 25,000 miles. . A small, slender gray-and-white bird with angular wings, the Arctic Tern is well known for its long yearly migration.
A small, slender gray-and-white bird with angular wings, the Arctic Tern is well known for its long yearly migration. Arctic terns are so lightweight—with small bodies, short legs, and narrow wings—that they can glide through the skies on a breeze. The arctic tern's wings are ideally adapted for such long flights. Breeding adults have a deeply forked tail.
Relative Size. Arctic terns have one of the longest migrations of any animal on—or above—the Earth. . and then they fly back. Arctic terns …