A small, slender white bird, the Arctic Tern is well known for its long yearly migration. Its travel from its Arctic breeding grounds to its wintering grounds off of Antarctica may cover perhaps 40,000 km (25,000 mi), and is the farthest yearly journey of any bird… (read more: Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
The Arctic Tern is famous for its migration; it flies from its Arctic breeding grounds to the Antarctic and back again each year. This 19,000 km (12,000 mi) journey each way (measured point to point) ensures that this bird sees two summers per year and more daylight than any other creature on the planet.
The average Arctic Tern lives about twenty years, and will travel about 2.4 million km (1.5 million mi) in its lifetime. Arctic Terns usually migrate far offshore andconsequently, they are rarely seen from land outside the breeding season.