Arctic Tern - Sterna paradisaea

Sterne arctique

Arctic Ternadult breeding, close-up portrait

  • close-up portrait
  • adult
  • breeding
  • Charrán ártico
  • gaivina-do-ártico
  • Küstenseeschwalbe
  • Sterna paradisaea
  • Charadriiformes

The species

Classification

Order  : Charadriiformes
Family : Laridae
Species : Arctic Tern

Geographic range by countries


specie's pictures

by the author
all the pictures

The picture

O.Net ref. : sepa225257
Author :
De Faune en Flore
Plumage : adult, breeding

Shooting

date : 2015 Jun
Country : Iceland (ic)
Region : Southern Peninsula
Place : Krísuvíkurberg Krísuvíkurberg
Lat. : 63° 50' 48'' North
Lng. : 22° 26' 54'' West