Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea from the Netherlands migrate record distances across three oceans to Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

• Published in: Ardea
• Main Authors: Fijn, Ruben C., Hiemstra, Derick, Phillips, Richard A., van der Winden, Jan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Ornithologists' Union 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; East Antarctica; Austral; Greenland; Indian; New Zealand; Weddell; Wilkes Land; Detour; Antarc*; Antarctica; Iceland; North Atlantic; Sterna paradisaea
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/502154/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/502154/1/Ardea1637edited.doc; https://doi.org/10.5253/078.101.0102

Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea have an exceptionally long-distance migration, annually travelling back and forth between the Arctic and the Antarctic. Birds from Greenland, Iceland and the USA were recently found to spend most of the non-breeding period in the Weddell Sea, a small part of the large...