PENANG: A Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) professor hopes to trace the 16,000km trail of the polar tern (from the gull family), the only known bird species to migrate between the Arctic and Antarctica each year.
School of Biological Sciences dean Professor Mashhor Mansor said he wanted to study the bird’s habitats along its flight path from the Arctic islands, North America, Mexico, South America and onwards to the Antarctic coast.
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