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The Arctic tern
The ‘swallow of our seas’, the Arctic tern is arguably one of the most impressive and beautiful of our seabirds.
Every year this tiny bird flies all the way from the Antarctic Ocean to northern isles like Orkney just to breed. In its lifetime, an Arctic tern may have travelled as far as the moon and back three times. That’s amazing.
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