As fireworks light up the skies this Independence Day, Collette Lauzau of Audubon Florida, urges beachgoers to be mindful of ...

Watch black skimmers, least terns, plovers and other shorebirds - along with some hungry dolphins - give a show at Fort Myers ...

The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation (SCCF) reported that the least tern colony on the Sanibel Causeway Islands is ...

Celebrate the Fourth of July cautiously by understanding its impact on coastal birds during their nesting season.

But the last successful tern nest in Pennsylvania was in the 1960s. With this pair, bird enthusiasts hope it’s the start of a revived tern colony for the relatively long-lived birds, which can ...

S mall, iconic, and endangered, California least terns return every year to one of the largest nesting colonies on the Northern California coast, in Alameda. This year marks 31 years since Susan ...

Fort Myers Beach, Florida, is a nesting site for various protected shorebirds, including black skimmers and least terns. Beach nesting season lasts from April 1 to August 31.

The least tern is a small-but-mighty shorebird that nests along the Gulf Coast in Alabama. It's featured as part of the Beautiful Birds of Alabama, a series highlighting some of the unique birds in ...

Terns, which dive toward the water and gracefully pick off small fish just below the surface, have been nesting on the private Hoboken pier in the spring and summer for 11 years.

Arctic terns came back to Juneau in late April to nest at the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. Gwen Baluss, a wildlife technician with the U.S. Forest Service, ensures their safety.

Back in the 1930s, Presque Isle State Park had 100 breeding pairs of terns at Gull Point on its east end before the population collapsed. Recent years have seen terns visit and attempt to nest ...