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Male arctic tern feeding female in mating ritual
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Male arctic tern feeding female in mating ritual

by Betty-Lou Luyken

Category: AvianAdded August 8, 20071,122 views

Gull-like Birds

Keywords: Arctic tern, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Spitsbergen

During a photo workshop with Jasper Doest on Spitsbergen we watched this couple of arctic terns for hours. The male was catching shrimp for the female in a mating ritual
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