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TIL about an incredible bird called the Arctic Tern, every year it flies from one side of the planet to the other and back again:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_t…

"Recent studies have shown average annual round-trip lengths of about 70,900 km (44,100 mi)"

A bird species that migrates 70,000 kilometres every year! 🤯

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Screenshot of distribution of the Arctic Tern, showing it spending half the year at the top of the planet in northern Europe, Canada and Asia (in red) and the other half at the bottom of the planet in Antarctica (in blue). The migration routes are shown in green and they follow the coastlines of Europe, Africa and the Americas.

species of seabird

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Did you ever hear about the time that they seized a bunch of cannabis in Alaska and decided to get rid of it by burning it?

The problem was that this was exactly the time when the Terns were migrating through that area. So environmentalist didn’t want it to happen.

But the police did it anyway. And right when they did a bunch of Terns flew right through the smoke.

Later the environmentalist found them all in a field sleeping.

It seems no Tern was left unstoned.

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… and these birds can get quite old. Last summer we were at a small Scottish bird sanctuary where there was a nesting tern that was ringed 25 years ago on the same site. That makes for nearly 2 million kilometers!
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@Kalmdaan

Astonishing 😮 Makes you wonder if they find this planet too small 😁

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