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 ...

Hoboken’s honorary bird could soon get its own artificial island in the Hudson River. Bird lovers are raising money to build a small floating island for common terns that will soon be evicted from a ...

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 ...

American Oystercatcher nesting on Ocracoke Island. Photo P. Vankevich By Peter Vankevich Here is a 2025 nesting overview for the region. Except for one notable bright spot, 2025 proved another ...

Common terns are endangered in Pennsylvania. Gull Point in Presque Isle State Park is the only appropriate breeding habitat for terns in the state. Something happened this summer at Presque Isle 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...