If you've ever seen a common tern feeding, you will never forget it. They usually hover some distance above the water, looking for a minnow or small fish swimming at or just below the surface of the ...

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 ...

Mainers love their birds and so this summer we are telling you about a different bird each week with the help of Maine Audubon. Also read: Square holes in your trees? You've crossed paths with a ...

In what is being described as a “landmark event”, common terns have successfully nested again in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Game Commission reported Wednesday that for the first time in six ...

A common tern captured and released from a small island in Chequamegon Bay near Ashland now holds the record for the oldest ever Great Lakes tern. The tern was one month shy of 26 years old when it ...

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 ...

Every now and then I meet a true wildlife superhero. You know, the kind of person who has dedicated their life to understand and protecting wildlife. And even after many decades, they are still ...