Antarctic+Tern

 Animal: Animal Group: Description of animal group || Antarctic Tern birds Covered in feathers and has wings. Most species can fly. || Observation Describe your animal (Colour, size, body parts) || Antarctic tern (//Sterna vittata//) adults are approximately 40cm in length and have a wingspan of 80cm. The bill is bright red and the feet and legs, orange/red. The head is black during the summer, but in the winter months it is streaked with white. approximately 100- 180g, males are heavier. **It can survive all year round in Antarctica because it has a warm feather coat.** || Source 3: || [][] || Describe how your animal behaves (moves, flies, runs) || flies with its wings in an up and down pattern. When something is as close as a metre, it walks instead of flies. || Where it lives || Arctic terns nest colonially, on sandy, gravelly, or sparsely vegetated shores of small islands (Hawksley 1957) or occasionally along barrier beaches. Although they often nest in colonies of their own species (Terres 1995), nesting habitat in the eastern part of their North American range may be shared with common terns, least terns and roseate terns **The Arctic Tern lives in both  **the Arctic and Antarctic. || What it eats How it eats || **They hunt and eat things twice their size.** Antarctic terns are gregarious, fishing in flocks of up to several hundred birds just beyond the surf zone. They feed on small fish and various crustacea. Antarctic terns also scavenge in the intertidal zone for stranded littoral organisms. || How does it have babies? How does it care for its babies? How long do they live? || Most birds are breeding by age 2. Breeding birds arrive in late October. Egg laying commences in mid January, with eggs hatching in February and fledging in April. Antarctic terns nest in colonies in rocky areas near the shore of just inland. Nesting takes place early, with eggs laid from mid-November. Clutch size is one or two; incubation is by both parents for 23 days, with the chicks hatching at two-day intervals from early December to late February. The chicks leave the nest to hide when they are three of four days old. || What does it do during the day and night? || Flies around scavenging for food, giving it to its young back at the nest. At night it sleeps partly and scavenges partly. If it hasn't found a new breeding spot, it will take up this time looking for a new spot. || How has it changed over time in Antarctica? || Many of the animals living in Antarctica have outer layers of dense fur or water-repellent feathers. Under this fur or feather layer is a thick layer of insulating fat. Many marine animals have large eyes to help them spot prey and predators in the dark waters. || However, Subantarctic Skuas and Kelp Gulls still occasionally manage to take eggs or chicks from unattended nests in colonies. || Arctic Terns are long-lived birds, with many reaching thirty years of age.
 * __**Classification**__
 * Source 1: ||  ||
 * Source 2: ||  ||
 * __**Description**__
 * Source 1: || [] ||
 * Source 2:
 * **__Movement:__**
 * Source 1: || Mum ||
 * Source 2: ||  ||
 * **__Habitat:__**
 * Source 1: || [] ||
 * Source 2: || [] ||
 * **__Feeding Habits:__**
 * Source 1: || [] ||
 * Source 2: || [] ||
 * **__Breeding Habits:__**
 * They lay their eggs in between rocks.**
 * Source 1: || [] ||
 * Source 2: || [] ||
 * **__Activity:__**
 * Source 1: || mum ||
 * Source 2: ||  ||
 * **Adaptations:**
 * Source 1: || [] ||
 * Source 2: ||  ||
 * **Threats:** || While nesting, Arctic Terns are vulnerable to predation by cats and other animals. Besides being a competitor for nesting sites, the larger Herring Gull steals eggs and hatchlings. Camouflaged eggs help prevent this, as do isolated nesting sites. While feeding, skuas, gulls, and other tern species will often harass the birds and steal their food.
 * Source 1: || [] ||
 * Source 2: || [|http://www.heardisland.aq/nature/animals/fact_file_antarctic_tern.html] ||
 * **Other Facts:** || **For example, they double their weight in summer time.**

The average Arctic Tern in its life will travel a distance equal to going to the moon and back—about 500,000 miles (800,000 km).

The Arctic tern is probably the most incredible example; if you are wondering why the Arctic tern is named for an area in the North Pole, you're right! The Arctic tern flies 35,000 km (21,750 miles) every year in order to catch the Arctic summer for one half of the year and the Antarctic summer for the other half! || Source 3: || [] [] ||
 * Source 1: || [] ||
 * Source 2: