The noddies form their own little subgroup within the terns, a small tropical group (how related they are to each other I am unsure)...

I’ve spoken before about the time I was lucky enough to work on Tern Island in French Frigate Shoals. Part of the Hawaiian Islands...

I’m not quite sure why I started thinking about Sooty Terns today, but once I did couldn’t get them out of my mind so...

One of the nice things about living in New Zealand and being the beat writer for that place is that I can pretty much...

I seem to having my own mini petrel-event here on the blog recently, I think it must be anticipation of seeing some in a...

Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again to one of my...

It is easy to forget sometimes that birds can do weird things. By weird things I don’t mean human weird things, like for example...

No, not the terror of the schoolyard, but the Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus pacificus. The species ranges widely across the Pacific, as its scientific name...