Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this 2007 photo provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, an interior least tern hatchling sits with other eggs in a nest ...

Lauren DuBois, a wildlife center volunteer, prepares to give an elegant tern its breakfast on July 16. (Madeleine Hordinski / Los Angeles Times) It’s been a tough year for elegant terns in Southern ...

Bird conservationists are hailing the recovery of the Elegant Tern, an endangered bird species that has relocated its primary nesting site to Mission Bay. But some area residents aren’t thrilled with ...

The bird—also known as Manu-o-Kū—has excited ornithologists, its population growing within Honolulu, the busiest of Hawai’i’s urban landscapes Joe Spring, Photography by Melody Bentz, Hakai A seabird ...

One favorable consequence of always carrying binoculars in plain view is that they help create an international citizenry of nature lovers. I’ve just returned from a trip to England visiting family.

The completion of an important island stabilization and endangered tern habitat restoration project on Bird Island was the focus of a gathering of federal, state, and local officials in the Town of ...

After seven years, erosion control and soil restoration work will resume at Bird Island, which had become badly degraded due to weather, and wave action, and put in peril delicate sea bird habitat.

HOBOKEN, NJ — As part of the effort to protect the terns who've made Hoboken their home — and admire other birds and signs of nature in Hoboken — the Hoboken Historical Museum is sponsoring a birding ...

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 ...

After 34 years on the endangered species list, a tiny Midwestern bird is ready to fly free of federal protection. Once diminished by hunting for feathers for hats and hurt by the damming of major ...

It's been a tough year for elegant terns in Southern California. A drone crash in June forced an estimated 3,000 of the sleek seabirds with their pointed orange bills to abandon their eggs on Bolsa ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - After 34 years on the endangered species list, a tiny Midwestern bird is ready to fly free of federal protection. Once diminished by hunting for feathers for hats and hurt by the ...