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Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
Subject: | Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea)
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Captured from a WONDERFUL MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM title,
"Eyewitness Encyclopedia of Nature",
Dorling Kindersley Multimedia, 1995
Arctic Tern
Sharp beak
Long, narrow wings
Small, webbed feet
DESPITE ITS NAME, the Arctic tern does not live only in the far north. Instead, it migrates between the Arctic and the Antarctic - a record-breaking round-trip of more than 20,000 miles (32,000 km). During the course of a year, it sees more daylight than any other animal.
Dorling Kindersly Multimedia
(reviewed by Univ. of Texsas Library)
http://volvo.gslis.utexas.edu/~reviews/dkmm.html
For more images captured from the CD-ROM title,
http://bioinfo.kordic.re.kr/animal/APAsrch2.cgi?qt=DKMMNature- |
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