If you walk to the end of the pier off 12th Street in Hoboken and look carefully at the neighboring one, you’ll see the city’s newest wildlife darlings, a colony of common terns tending to nests and ...

What’s in a name? For birds, the scientific, or Latin, name is selected by the person who discovers and describes a species, but the common name evolves organically and can differ regionally. The name ...

Hoboken’s honorary bird could soon get its own artificial island in the Hudson River. Bird lovers are raising money to build a small floating island for common terns that will soon be evicted from a ...

The Minnesota DNR and other agencies have worked for 30 years to protect the threatened common tern. There are fewer than 900 nesting pairs in the state. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota ...

We started the day on Appledore Island, just outside Portsmouth Harbor. The Shoals Marine Lab, resident there, traces its history back to 1928. Among the biologists spending the summer there this year ...

(The Center Square) — On the shores of Pennsylvania’s sliver of Lake Erie, something has happened that hasn’t been seen for decades: common terns nesting on the beach, raising their young chicks to ...

Three species of beach-nesting birds can be seen at Wrightsville Beach during the summer. Least terns, common terns, and black skimmers will migrate south for the winter. The south end of Wrightsville ...

It was a common tern, the much maligned water bird that has been cited as one of the key reasons for scuttling plans to build a striking, two-tower cable-stayed Peace Bridge in favor of a lower, less ...