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Show Homing Terns Five terns were taken from the bird rookery on the tip of the Florida Flor-ida peninsula and carried by a roundabout round-about steamer route to a position off Cape Hatteras, where they were given their freedom. Five days from the date of capture three of them were back on the nesting grounds, according to Science, where they were identified by the metal bands with which their legs had been encircled en-circled before they were taken on their long voyage. The straight-line distance from Cape Hatteras to Bird Key is about 850 miles ; by coastline flight the distance is 1.0S1 miles. This latter is greater than the record flight for trained pigeons, 1,010 miles. |