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from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:

Earlier today I Googled for Arctic Tern. There were so many facts and
figures and different in all of the sites that one doesn't know what to
'understand'.
For instance, it was said that the AT can live for as long as 32 years. In
another it was said that no bird has been recorded which lived more than 21
years.

Well, you can discount that last figure. Think parrot.

Twenty one years for a little bird which spends little time on land, which
migrates from within 600 miles of the north pole to the Antarctic, is a
great age, I'd have thought. But no doubt there will be some who have read
the first 'authority' I quoted and declare that they 'understood' that the
AT can live for 32 years. I tend to believe the findings of the Norwegian
researchers on Svalbard - but what do I know? Just because I've been there,
seen the birds and the researchers is irrelevant. It really is.

I'm not criticising you, Bob, I'm just confused about the plethora of
'authoritative information' there is about and how many of us can be misled.

Ah yes. Must be true, I read it on the Internet/in the newspaper...

[pronounced 'mizzled' in our house :-) ]

And in several others I could mention.

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Rusty
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