ORNITHOLOGISTS are delighted after luring record numbers of "sea swallows" to the region. A record 420 breeding pairs of common terns have set up home on two artificial beaches constructed on the RSPB ...

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 ...

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 ...

In what is being described as a “landmark event”, common terns have successfully nested again in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Game Commission reported Wednesday that for the first time in six ...

(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 ...

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Terns have attempted to nest on Presque Isle regularly since 2012 (one year had as many as eight pairs on the beach), but all of their 21 nests failed. Human activity or predators — gulls, crows, and ...

Three species of beach-nesting birds can be seen at Wrightsville Beach during the summer. Least terns, common terns, and black skimmers will migrate south for the winter. The south end of Wrightsville ...

WORCESTER CO., Md. - A tern raft floating in the Chincoteague Bay in Worcester County is celebrating its fifth successful year of providing a safe nesting site for hundreds of endangered waterbirds.