#0760 · 🐦 birds

Arctic Tern

🇳🇱 Noordse Stern ·Sterna paradisaea

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

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. Recent...

base stats

NL sightings 44iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,005iNaturalist observations
weight 114 gadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).