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 ...

Every now and then I meet a true wildlife superhero. You know, the kind of person who has dedicated their life to understand and protecting wildlife. And even after many decades, they are still ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you've ever seen a common tern feeding, you will never forget it. They usually hover some distance above the water, looking for a minnow or small fish swimming at or just below the surface of the ...

"Common" may be defined as communal and cooperating or prevalent, well-known and everyday. But there are also not so pleasant connotations: mediocre, inferior, lowborn or vulgar. None of the above ...

In July 1928, one Oliver H. Austin Jr. caught a common tern in Northern Labrador, put an aluminum band around its leg. In September 1929, the same tern, still banded, was seen and examined off the ...