Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Arctic Terns Above August Nagoon?

Summary: Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Arctic terns above August nagoon plants that perhaps act as nesting-food, nesting-material sources and nesting sites?

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Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), under synonym of "Arctic Tern. Sterna Arctica; (Temmlo)," described as "male in its summer plumage" in John Gould, The Birds of Europe, Vol. V Natatores (1837), Plate 419: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Are Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Arctic terns above August nagoon plants that perhaps act as nesting-food, nesting-material sources and nesting sites at northern breeding-ground areas along Arctic waters May through September?

All vascular plants, in their Tracheophytes (from Greek τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία φυτά, “windpipe plants”) clade, boast mineral- and water-bearing xylem and photosynthetic starches- and sugars-bearing phloem tissues. Angiosperms (from Greek ἀγγεῖον σπέρμα, “container[ized] seed”) flowering-plants and Eudicots (from Greek εὐ- δι- κοτυληδών, “true two seed-leaf”) clade memberships command seed-contained fruits and two-leafed germination. Rosids-clade, Rosales-order, Rosaceae-family (from Greek ῥόδον, “rose [Rosa gallica]” via Latin rosa; Latin -idæ, “-appearing”; -ālis, “-pertaining”; -āceae, “-resembling”) memberships domicile base-fused, radial-symmetried petals, sepals, stamens.

Rubus arcticus (from Latin rubus, “blackberry bush [Rubus fruticosus], bramble”; Greek ἀρκτικός, “northern, of [Great] Bear [Ursa Major]”) exteriorizes fleshy skin to a hardened-ovary, seeded shell.

The perennial figured scientifically by Carl Linnaeus (May 23, 1707-Jan. 10, 1778) figures commonly as Arctic bramble, Arctic raspberry, nagoon, nagoonberry (from coastal northwest Tlingit neigóon).

The Northern Hemispherite groups with slow-growing brambles (from Middle English brembel; Old English bræmbel, brǣmel, brēmel, “prickly plant, thorny shrub”) even as it grows prickle-less, thorn-less. Arctic bramble, Arctic raspberry, nagoon, nagoonberry plants have mature, two-year-old habits 4 to 12 inches (10 to 30 centimeters) high by 39 inches (100 centimeters) wide. Their maturity inspires woody bases whose profile is of increasingly thinner diameter as glossy stems increase in phototropic- (from Greek φῶς τροπή, “light turning”), upward-impelled height.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Arctic terns perhaps journey over wild August nagoon plants that join other Arctic bramble, Arctic raspberry, nagoonberry populations at tern-nesting junctions.

Arctic terns know as nesting keepsakes alternate, stipulate (from Latin stipula, “stalk”) leaves and, kindled by horizontal, underground-stemmed rhizomes’ (from Greek ῥίζα, “root”) roots and shoots.

Two-inch- (5-centimeter-) lengths lodge palmate (from Latin palmātus, “decorated with palm branches, palm [of the hand]-shaped”) blades and log as one terminal-lying, two lateral-lying, three leaflets. One terminal leaflet maintains a diamond-like shape even as each one of two laterals (from Latin latus -ālis, “flank/side -pertaining” via laterālis) manifests round-edged, unsymmetrical margins. All the foliage, always sparse-haired, on Arctic bramble, Arctic raspberry, nagoon, nagoonberry, sometimes nicknamed dwarf raspberry, always niches toothed margins even as it sometimes nurtures reddishness.

Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Arctic terns orient themselves, for food and shelter, to wild August nagoon occupancies along the Arctic waters of the coastal northwest.

Arctic bramble, Arctic raspberry, dwarf raspberry, nagoon, nagoonberry populations present lavender, magenta, pink, purple, red, white prettiness atop long, slender stalks each May, June and July.

Each flower queues six to nine petals (from Greek πέτᾰλον, “flower/plant/tree leaf, slice, thin metal plate”; from πέτᾰλος, “broad, flat”; from πετάννυμι, “I open, spread out”). All flowers realize 0.6- to 1-inch (15- to 25-millimeter) breadths even as they always reunite many pollen-receiving pistils (from Latin pistillum, “pestle”) and many pollen-producing stamens. Seeds from the insect-pollinated flowers, with female-sexed pistils and male-sexed stamens (from Latin stamen, “thread [hanging from a distaff], warp [of a loom”), survive Arctic temperatures.

Wild August nagoon perhaps always tempts Audubon Arctic Wall Calendar 2024 Arctic terns to try loamy, organic matter-rich, somewhat neutral to somewhat acidic, sunny, well-drained soils.

Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) nest near the Arctic bramble, also known as the Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus), a slow-growing member of the rose family; Arctic terns shape their nests with the bramble's parts and sometimes consume their fruits; Rubus arcticus in G.J. Billberg, Svensk Botanik, Första Bandet (1815), Plate 26: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), under synonym of "Arctic Tern. Sterna Arctica; (Temmlo)," described as "male in its summer plumage" in John Gould, The Birds of Europe, Vol. V Natatores (1837), Plate 419: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/46779277911/; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42358580

Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) nest near the Arctic bramble, also known as the Arctic raspberry (Rubus arcticus), a slow-growing member of the rose family; Arctic terns shape their nests with the bramble's parts and sometimes consume their fruits; Rubus arcticus in G.J. Billberg, Svensk Botanik, Första Bandet (1815), Plate 26: Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/61021753@N02/6120319108/; Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14885479

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