Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1920 — Arctic Terns Love the Cold. [ARTICLE]

Arctic Terns Love the Cold.

For a long time it ws thought that the golden plover bore off the palm for length of flight between summer and winter homes, but now that distinction Is awarded to the arctie tern. This bird breeds as far north as it can find anything stable on which to construct its nest; it has been found within seven and a half degrees of tee pole. And teat nest was found surrounded by a wall of newly fallen snow which the mother bird had carefully scooped dirt from round her chick. The tern arrives in th* far north about June 16, and leaves again tor the south toward tee end of August, when tee young are able to fly strongly. Two or three months later the birds are found skirting tee edge of the antarctic continent, 11,000 miles away. What their track is over that vast space no on* yet knows.