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'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 ...

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 ...

A volunteer, a state biologist and a Navy employee canoed out to three human-made nesting platforms on Lake Michigan along the Naval Station Great Lakes shoreline. There, in mid-July, they witnessed ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

"Common" may be defined as communal and cooperating or prevalent, well-known and everyday. But there are also not so pleasant connotations: mediocre, inferior, lowborn or vulgar. None of the above ...

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 ...