THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

The Arctic Tern, as conveyed by its name, is a bird of the north, and rears its young on the shores that are washed by the Arctic Seas, both those of the mainland of Europe, Asia, and America, and the lonely islands that are exposed on all sides to the raving blasts of the Polar Furies – Melville Island, Greenland, Iceland, and the Ferroe Islands; Baffin’s Bay, Siberia, and Kamtschatka.

They are true birds of the air, and right pleasant it is to watch them, as each and every of the tribe, floating, falling, rising, sailing, turning, diving, in the kindred element whose lightness they almost seem to equal, on some smiling morn which you will do well to hail when land and sea are ready to welcome you with the indescribable freshness of the early hours.

Morris/Birds, 1855