my life as a arctic terns

My Life
as a

Arctic Terns

By: Nicole Amaya

My early chick days

I was born in late june; my bed is so comfy it has
a view of the beach. I have two other siblings.

While i stay with my brothers and sisters my
mom goes out fishing for small fishes for our
dinner, sometimes mom brings insects but my

favorite is sandeels.

We live at the beach where its noise, tourist like
throwing food at us

Arctic tern egg Baby arctic tern hatches Baby arctic terns

Teenage arctic tern Adult arctic tern

The journey begins

We usually start getting ready to go to our
winter vacation when the cold starts because
that's when there is less sunlight and without
sun hitting the water it's harder for mom to go

fishing.

We leave for six months! Mom has to teach
us how to glide through the summer.

We travel for 1.5 million miles throughout our
30 year lifespan. Which equals to three trips

to the moon and back.

Winter Vacation

After the breeding season, we migrate north.We
don't all migrate to the same place some of us
migrate to Alaska and northern Canada, south to

northern British Columbia , the Hudson Bay, and along
the Atlantic Coast to Massachusetts

Fun fact we don't spend the whole time flapping our
wings while migrating, but rather gliding. a great
amount of the distances we are gliding, we are

such good gliders we can even sleep while gliding.

Not to brag but we fly for three to four weeks! That's a
long time just gliding through the air. it's easy for us
because we have versatility wings which are easy to
adapt to anything like when we sleep while gliding or
even eat.

We have this fuel stop before heading to the tropics,
it's called the atlantic ocean we fuel up on fishes; i fuel
up on sandeels because those are my favorite, yum!

Well miss our home at the beach but canada is so
nice, it our home. There's more trees here and
different kind of fishes. I'm relieved we got here
because i was tired of gliding and i was getting very
hungry.

Our return journey

When we start returning during our spring
trip back to the greenland we follow this

zigzag pattern.

When coming back to the beaches and having
to say bye to our winter homes it's always so
difficult for me.¨i´ll miss you canada¨ i chirp
as im starting to head out. We have to start
preparing to fly back so we fuel up on fishes

it's the same process.

Home at last

We are home at last, i haven't been here
since summer ended. Although i'm glad to be

back i loved gliding w my family and doing
patterns through the air. we took a fuel stop in
the wide open atlantic ocean where i caught

the best fishes of my life we sat on pack ice
and we fly for weeks, we saw the sunsets
including sunrises and much more now i'll be
enjoying the beach and meeting tourist this

summer.
I can't want for next winter vacation!!

Sad story, we are vulnerable to foxes, skunks, dogs, cats, and avian predators, which
one day could lead to our extinction. We are also projected to lose 20 to 50 percent of

our homes due to the temperature changes linked to climate change.

The End

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