Arctic Tern returning to its nest on the Farne Islands.

"Nobody wants my fish???"

Seltjarnarnes, Reykjavik, Iceland

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Arctic Tern - Sterna Pradisaea

With its long tail streamers and general shape the Arctic tern deserves the local name of 'sea swallow'. Appearing white with a black cap, it is largely coastal although it can be seen inland on migration. It depends on a healthy marine environment and some colonies have been affected by fish shortages.

Arctic terns are the ultimate long distance migrants - summer visitors to the UK and winter visitors to the Antarctic.

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Arctic Tern - Sterna Pradisaea

with some weed picked up whilst diving!

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Thanks to Steve for recommending the visit, thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Thank you to all who comment and/or fave my images, it is much appreciated.

Thanks to Steve for recommending the visit, thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Thank you to all who comment and/or fave my images, it is much appreciated.

Thanks to Steve for recommending the visit, thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Seltjarnarnes, Reykjavik, Iceland

Thank you to all who comment and/or fave my images, it is much appreciated.

Thanks to Steve for recommending the visit, thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Thank you to all who comment and/or fave my images, it is much appreciated.

Thanks to Steve for recommending the visit, thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Thank you to all who comment and/or fave my images, it is much appreciated.

Thanks to Steve for recommending the visit, thoroughly enjoyed myself.

this is the one that brought the worm to the little one on the previous shot

Sie hat den Wurm auf dem vorherigen Bild zu ihrem Küken gebracht

Arctic Tern - Sterna Pradisaea

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Thank you to all who comment and/or fave my images, it is much appreciated.

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Arctic Tern - Sterna Pradisaea

(Last upload for a while)

Arctic Tern feeding young

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Whilst walking along the beach towards the local sandwich tern colony at Cemlyn Bay, an arctic tern juvenile dropped down in front of me. For most of the time I was there I ignored the sandwich terns and waited for the adults to come in and feed the young. Full frame shot.

Caught this Arctic Tern 'fishing' near Deadman's Pond, St.John's, NL.

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Was super stoked to find 2 Arctic Terns in Richmond yesterday. We were cruising by in a boat when we spotted the stubby legged and stubby billed birds. There was an adult and juvenile present and the juv was begging away. A nice treat to see this rarity in Metro Vancouver. By the way did you know that Arctic Terns migrate from the arctic where they breed to spend the winter in Antartica and flies about 40,000 kms! It is the farthest yearly journey of any bird which is just incredible!

This is a stitched panorama of part of the mighty Borgarfjordur Eystri fjord with its beautiful mountain range, still covered in snow despite being May, and its refuge for sea birds, here an enormous flock of seagulls mixed with a good number of Arctic terns on the island to the left. The clouds over the mountains were harbingers of a blizzard that kept us captive in this fjord, since we could not get back over the mountain pass after that blizzard. But we didn't mind since it was such a beautiful place to stay.

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Arctic terns fighting for their territory in the sky above their breeding colony. Mostly these fights end soon and without any harm for both. And it looks breathtaking!

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Réalisé le 25 mai 2022 à bord du bateau de Croisières Escoumins, Les Escoumins, Haute Côte Nord, Québec.

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Taken on May, 25th / 2022 aboard the Croisières Escoumins' boat, Les Escoumins, Haute Cote Nord, Quebec.

In the Svalbard settlement of Ny_Alesund (Coordinates: 78°55′30″N 11°55′20″E), Arctic terns appeared to me to be as common as sparrows in most of the world, This breeding beauty was posing on a corner pole.

Nourrissage des jeunes au sol au milieu d'une prairie de graminées !

I have already uploaded flight shots of this species from Nome and don't usually upload birds on non natural perches but this was a unique moment. How often do you see a Tern on a street sign? My friend who went to Nome before me told me to be prepared to sit in Subway and watch Slaty-backed Gulls in the parking lot.

Well Nome had many of those moments but I miss walking through town and seeing Aleutian and Arctic Terns on street signs. In BC I usually only see Arctic Terns on pelagic trips as they fly overhead so to get this close to one, even if it is on a street sign was pretty cool. I find Terns to be so elegant. The Aleutian Tern in Nome was a lifer for me but seeing an Arctic Tern up close, was no less of a thrill.

Fun Fact: This bird migrates from the Arctic where it breeds to spend the winter in Antartica and flies about 40,000km. It is the farthest yearly journey of any bird. Just incredible!

One more photo of the fighting Arctic terns. It was so spectacular to watch and photograph these amazing birds..

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An Arctic tern, flying over the breeding colony and watching for its partner. I will never understand how they could find each other in this chaos...