The Longest Migration Record!
This bird has the longest migration of any animal.
The Arctic Tern.
These birds have a continuous circumpolar breeding distribution. Covering the Arctic and sub-Arctic.
It flies from its Arctic breeding grounds to the Antarctic and back again each year.
Those spending the northern summer in Iceland and Greenland cover the largest distance annually.
They make their way south to the Antarctic for the southern summer.
A staggering 44,100 mile roundtrip.
This was the average distance, as documented in a 2010 study.
The maximum distance recorded was 50,700 miles.
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Scientific Classification:
Class: Aves
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae
Genus: Sterna
Species: S. paradisaea
Binomial name: Sterna paradisaea
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Citation/ reference:
2010 PMCID: PMC2836663PMID: 20080662
Tracking of Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea reveals longest animal migration
Carsten Egevang,a,b,1 Iain J. Stenhouse,c Richard A. Phillips,d Aevar Petersen,e James W. Fox,d and Janet R. D. Silkd
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