Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Arctic Tern
Sterna paradisaea
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a tern in the family Laridae. This bird has a circumpolar breeding distribution covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America (as far south as Brittany and Massachusetts). The species is strongly migratory, seeing two summers each year as it migrates along a convoluted route from its northern breeding grounds to the Antarctic coast for the southern summer and back again about six months later.
- Family
- Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 110 g
- Habitat
- Coastal
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Migrant
- Countries recorded
- 44
Recorded in Sweden, United States, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, United Kingdom, Canada, SJ, Estonia, Netherlands, Germany, Åland, Ireland, Russia, Belgium, Antarctica, Spain, France, Faeroe Islands, Greenland, South Africa, Australia, Portugal, Isle of Man, Chile, Poland, Namibia, Senegal, India, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, BM, SH, Latvia, New Zealand, Czechia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Mexico, Israel, Switzerland, S. Geo. and the Is., Argentina.
Where to see it: Smeerenburg (Svalbard and Jan Mayen); Sjoskrenten (Svalbard and Jan Mayen); Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard and Jan Mayen); Longyearbyen (Svalbard and Jan Mayen); Nordvest-Spitsbergen NP · Fjortende Julibreen (Svalbard and Jan Mayen).
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