Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaes) mobbing visiting human beings near its nest, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

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The Arctic Tern is a long-distance migrant travelling several thousand miles every year. It breeds in colonies and attacks any intruder (including humans) aggressively

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Size: 5061px × 3363px
Location: Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway
Photo credit: © Paul Harris / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: al, arctic, bird, charadriiformes, codalunga, colonial, coloniali, colony, distance, farne, islands, long, marini, migrant, nesting, nido, paradisaea, sea, spitsbergen, spitzbergen, sterna, sternidae, svalbard, tern, uccelli, uk