There are foods that are not easy for the uninitiated to eat.  Pomegranate is one, especially if you don’t realize that the seeds are...

The IOC World Bird list proposed a number of unconventional bird names, most notably the Great Northern Loon (Gavia immer) and the Roughleg (Buteo...

Arctic Terns are a rarity in New York State.  But Sterna paradisaea can be found pretty much every year at Cupsogue Beach County Park on...

Until recently I had only ever seen a single Sandwich Tern.  It was back in July of 2009, the day that I saw more...

On a recent all-too-brief visit to that Mecca of birding in my home borough I was doing my best to get some good flight...

I could watch terns all day long.  Flying, hunting, calling, preening, or just sitting around, I find terns fascinating.  It just seems so improbable...

When we left our intrepid pair of birders we had thoroughly enjoyed the appetizers of seawatching and sparrow-seeking and were hungry for the main...

Five years ago the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service set a five-year goal of 500 adult Least Terns and 125 fledglings per year along...