Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska. Winter is approaching, and soon the region will be buried under snow and ice. For the past three months ...

With soaring lines washed in luminous colors, Moore (Yoshi and the Ocean) traces a year in the life of the arctic tern—an animal that, back matter suggests, may experience more sunlight than any other ...

The number of Arctic terns spending summers by the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center seems to be dwindling. Gwen Baluss, U.S. Forest Service wildlife technician and Audubon Society member, said while ...

The astonishing migration of the tiny Arctic tern has just set an incredible new record. While it has long been known that the sea birds make the titanic trip from the northern hemisphere to the ...

The epic migration flight of seabirds from Northumberland to Antarctica has been plotted in fascinating detail by North East scientists. Weighing only around 100g, the Arctic tern has the longest ...

Arctic terns in Juneau have met odd ends for two years running, and they’ve just returned for another season. Two years ago, several nests of eggs laid by the globe-trotting seabirds were ravaged by a ...

COIMBATORE: Bringing much joy to the birders’ community, two species of terns have been spotted at the Puthalam saltpans in Kanniyakumari. This is said to be the first time these seabirds have been ...

Of all migrating birds, the Arctic tern flies the farthest -- braving cold, wind, storms, predators and starvation to travel from as far as upper Greenland to the shores of Antarctica. But little has ...

Some birds make long treks south during wintertime, but the Arctic tern bests them all, flying on average 44,000 miles on its annual migration from pole to pole, according to a new study. The shortest ...