A northeast wind was howling along the beach at Port Aransas as I led a group of intrepid bird-watchers interested in the difference between royal and Caspian terns. It's not an easy task. Even John ...

JACKSON, Miss.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove Endangered Species Act protection from the interior least tern, a small bird that nests along major rivers in the Midwest ...

PORTLAND, Oreg.— Today the Center for Biological Diversity filed a scientific petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the western gull-billed tern as an endangered species under ...

When Loveland resident Susan Baptista spotted a large bird with a bright red bill fishing in Upper Hoffman Lake, her interest was piqued. “I’d never seen one before,” said the wildlife photographer.

San Diego’s many bays, beaches and lagoons are a birding haven, but the air show put on by feeding terns makes fall and winter an even better time to head for the coastline. Several species of these ...

Not all seagulls are the same. At the beach, you may see gulls that vary in size, wing color and perhaps head color. You may also notice gull-like birds wearing black caps. Watch how gracefully they ...

Federal officials said Tuesday that 35 years of legal protection and habitat restoration efforts had brought the tern back from the brink of extinction. TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The interior least tern, ...

The common tern is most widespread tern species in North America, but its breeding colonies in interior North America have been on the decline for decades despite conservation efforts. The problem, at ...

The diet, size of prey fish and feeding habitats of the arctic and the common tern in the middle and outer zones of the archipelago of southwestern Finland were studied in 1966 — 1972, mainly from ...