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Arctic tern makes longest ever migration equal to flying twice around the planet
2016-06-07 01:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A tiny bird from the Farne Islands off Northumberland has clocked up the longest migration ever recorded. The Arctic terns meandering journey to Antarctica and back saw it clock up 59,650 miles, more than twice the circumference of the planet. The bird, which weighs just 100g, left its breeding grounds last July and flew down the west coast of Africa, rounded the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean and arrived in Antarctica in November. Its mammoth trek was recorded by a tiny device attached...
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