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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Elegant Tern. Photo by Bob Lewis By Peter Vankevich It was early Thursday, Sept. 25, at Cape Point on Hatteras Island. As Bob Lewis focused his long lens on a Black Tern, he noticed in the ...
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 ...
Conservationists have attracted 29 breeding seabird pairs since installing two floating rafts at Medmerry this spring ...
(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 ...
WORCESTER CO., Md. - A tern raft floating in the Chincoteague Bay in Worcester County is celebrating its fifth successful ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The case of the river tern is a curious one. The medium-sized gray bird with a forked tail, a black cap and a white belly is quite common along ...
With this pair, bird enthusiasts hope it’s the start of a revived tern colony for the relatively long-lived birds, which can survive to a quarter-century. With some luck and outside advice, the price ...
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