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...

The recent hubbub in the northeastern United States in terms of rare birds has been all about the Whiskered Tern at Cape May, the...

Nickerson Beach is an amazing place to visit when the breeding birds are back. Though it is an active beach at which people fish,...

We have been experiencing some monsoonal weather recently and many a day we are faced with the encroaching black sky as shown above. We...

A sewage pond is, like a landfill, one of those places by which non-birders get very confused. “Wait, you’re going to a sewage pond?...

Long overdue, the first confirmed state record of Elegant Tern* was found on 3 July 2013 by a trio of birders on the mudflats...

You may already know how awesome Arctic Terns are. Clocking more than 50,000 miles per year, the birds appear to have cornered the market...