The tiny arctic tern makes the longest migration of any animal in the world, flying about two times farther than previously thought, a new study says. Miniature new transmitters recently revealed ...

Billions of birds travel distances incomprehensible to humans annually. Some, like the Arctic tern, log sufficient miles in their lifetime to fly to the moon and back without ever consulting a map or ...

The famous Arctic tern makes an epic journey of more than 12,000 miles from the Arctic to Antarctica — a distance that surpasses the world’s longest nonstop commercial flight.

Birds all over the world are completing their migratory journeys. Sometimes their journeys are as long as 22,000 miles! How Do They Do That?! One bird in particular, the Arctic Tern, is able to ...

Arctic and little terns, and ringed plover, breed and nest on the fragile dunes and beaches at Long Nanny, monitored by seven ...

The Arctic Tern's been crowned as the animal with the longest known annual migration but it's not alone in long-distance travel.

You would have learnt in school that migratory birds fly south for the winter and go back north during the summer. Textbooks might even have forced you to learn about the amazing Arctic Tern, a ...

If you thought George Clooney's character in "Up in the Air" racked up a lot of frequent flyer miles, you should meet his avian rival, which flies the equivalent of three round trips to the moon and ...

Arctic Tern. When it comes to long-distance migration, no bird comes close to the Arctic tern. Some of these species travel as much as 60,000 miles in a single year.