北极燕鸥

分类位置

同属物种

Antarctic Tern

Antarctic Tern

黑腹燕鸥

Black-bellied Tern

黑枕燕鸥

Black-naped Tern

普通燕鸥

Common Tern

Forster's Tern

Forster's Tern

Kerguelen Tern

Kerguelen Tern

形态与习性

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 (as far south as Brittany), Asia, and North America (as far south as Massachusetts). The species is strongly migratory, seeing two summers each year as they migrate along a convoluted route from their northern breeding grounds to the Antarctic coast for the southern summer and back again about six months later. Recent studies