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 ...

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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 ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

Long Nanny on the Northumberland coast is home to the Britain’s largest mainland breeding colony of Arctic terns National Trust rangers watching over Britain’s largest mainland colony of ...

Rangers looking after Britain’s largest mainland colony of Arctic terns are “on tenterhooks” to see how the seabirds fare after a devastating outbreak of bird flu last year. National Trust ...