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OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
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E-3
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f/10
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sRGB
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0 EV
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Program
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500 mm
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500
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Multi-Segment
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Tue 14 Jul 2009 03:55:00 PM EDT
English Arctic Tern
Scientific (Sterna paradisaea)
Order CHARADRIIFORMES
Family (Latin) Laridae
Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Other name(s) Sterne arctique
Breeding Regions EU, NA
Breeding Range Subregions widespread through n
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Algeria,Angola,Antarctica,Argentina,Australia,Austria,Belarus,Benin,Bermuda,Bolivia, Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Bulgaria,Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Central African Republic,Chile,Colombia,Congo, Croatia,Cyprus,Czech Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Denmark,Ecuador - Galapagos Islands,Ecuador - mainland,Equatorial Guinea,Estonia,Finland, France,Gabon,Gambia,Germany,Ghana,Greece,Greenland,Guinea,Guinea-Bissau,Hungary, Iceland,India - mainland,Indonesia,Ireland,Israel,Ivory Coast,Japan,Latvia,Liberia,Libya, Lithuania,Marshall Islands,Mauritania,Mexico,Mozambique,Namibia,Netherlands,Nigeria,Norway,Paraguay, Peru,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Russia,Sao Tome and Principe,Saudi Arabia,Senegal,Serbia,Sierra Leone, Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Spain,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Togo,Ukraine,United Kingdom, United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Western Sahara,
IOC 11.2 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Pontoppidan, 1763
German Küstenseeschwalbe
French Sterne arctique
Chinese 北极燕鸥
Japanese キョクアジサシ
Russian Полярная крачка
Spanish Charrán ártico
Portuguese trinta-réis-ártico / gaivina-do-árctico
Bird Data App text Known for having the one of the longest migrations in the animal kingdom, from the northern arctic to Antarctica.
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)