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User Albums Favorites www.BirdPhotos.com Shore Birds Terns Arctic Tern Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)   Range: EU, NA : widespread through the north (range map) info Photo by Svenni and his Icelandic birds    - Fljótshlíð, Iceland  Sizes: 800x600 1152x864 3648x2736 histogram Full size: 3648x2736 next (Arctic Tern) last first previous  (Antarctic Tern) Copyright and usage info: © All Rights Reserved. Photo Properties summary  details Make OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. Model E-3 Aperture Value f/10 Color Space sRGB Exposure Bias Value 0 EV Exposure Program Program Flash Unknown: 8 Focal Length 500 mm ISO 500 Metering Mode Multi-Segment Shutter Speed Value 1/800 sec Date/Time Tue 14 Jul 2009 03:55:00 PM EDT Additional Information English Arctic Tern Scientific (Sterna paradisaea) Order CHARADRIIFORMES Family (Latin) Laridae Family (English) Gulls, Terns, Skimmers Other name(s) Sterne arctique Breeding Range EU, NA : widespread through the north Nonbreeding Range Subregions Subantarctic Ocean 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,Great Britain,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 and Montenegro, Sierra Leone,Somalia,South Africa,South Sudan,Spain,Sudan,Sweden,Switzerland,Togo,Ukraine, United States - Alaska,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Western Sahara, IOC 9.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range 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 Portugese 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) next (Arctic Tern) last first previous  (Antarctic Tern)