EOL Arctic Tern Google Earth Tour

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Uploaded by on Dec 5, 2011

The arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) makes an incredible migration each year. These small birds travel distances of more than 50,000 miles, from pole to pole, crossing through temperate and tropical regions along the way. Carsten Egevang used geo-locator tags to track ten of these terns, and he shares their story with us in this tour.

Narrated by Ari Daniel Shapiro. Produced by Atlantic Public Media (www.atlantic.org) and Eduardo Garcia Milagros.

Download the Google Earth Tour kmz file here: http://education.eol.org/sites/default/files/EOL_Arctic_Tern_Tour.kmz

[taxonomy:binomial=Sterna paradisaea]

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  • Science should concentrate some energy, time and resources on finding some rational alternatives to perpetual war, widespread human conflict and misery, poverty and death: The birds seem well enough alone. Here's an idea - study the ramifications of the insane 'global hemp eradication' mandated at the UN in 1961: I suggest it may have something bad to do with the rapid failure of healthy biosphere gas exchange, carbon uptake, soil erosion, widespread starvation of people and animals. Who cares?

  • Fantastic story – incredible bird – very well communicated!!!

  • That was a fantastic production.

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