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Arctic Tern Range Map

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Range Map for Arctic Tern

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Migration

Long-distant migrant. In the fall, birds in eastern North America migrate across the North Atlantic toward Europe and northern Africa before heading farther south to southern Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. Birds in the West migrate south across the Pacific Ocean to Antarctica.

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