Arctic Tern in Flight

Charadriiformes

Place: Ferry from Gill’s Bay to St. Margaret’s Hope, Orkney Islands
Dates: 21 July 2017.




[Sterna paradisaea, Family Laridae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Arctic tern]

The sound of the arctic tern (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Niels Krabbe)

Distribution and sightings of the arctic tern across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Distribution and sightings of the arctic tern across the British Isles