One of the birds she was lucky enough to find was the world's longest-migrating animal, the Arctic tern. Sherri found Arctic terns nesting in Valdez, Alaska, along a harbor. As she approached them ...

The study adds surprising new detail to the Arctic tern's epic migration The Arctic tern's extraordinary pole-to-pole migration has been detailed by an international team of scientists. The ...

The tiny arctic tern makes the longest migration of any animal in the world, flying about two times farther than previously thought, a new study says. Miniature new transmitters recently revealed ...

Arctic terns came back to Juneau in late April to nest at the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. Gwen Baluss, a wildlife ...

The first was an Arctic tern that the inimitable Kenn Kaufman nailed on Wednesday at Maumee Bay State Park near Toledo. This bird -- the third ever seen in the state -- hung out with a flock of ...

And you thought your commute was too long. A high-tech tracking survey has revealed that the annual migration of the Arctic tern is the longest in the animal kingdom – with some birds flying the ...

The Arctic tern makes a return trip of around 44,000 miles from pole to pole each year, flying between its breeding grounds in Greenland in the north and the Weddell Sea on the shores of ...

“Yep,” she replied. Even this premier birdwatcher could not distinguish at that foggy distance between the common and the arctic tern. They look a lot alike, especially from the deck of a rolling ship ...

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The best example is new research on the migratory patterns of the Arctic tern, using a minute electronic device designed by engineers at the British Antarctic Survey. Called a geolocator ...

Somewhere in Greenland there’s an Arctic tern that could qualify. Arctic terns have a reputation as long-distance travelers, migrating to the Southern Ocean from breeding grounds in the Arctic.