Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska. Winter is approaching, and soon the region will be buried under snow and ice. For the past three months ...

Members of a research crew on Seal Island rejoiced in the puffins’ comeback, but worried about the impacts of climate change ...

I stepped onto the battlefield of climate change, sidestepping carcass after carcass. In the grass were the remains of Arctic terns, common terns, and roseate terns. Along the boulders, researchers ...

With soaring lines washed in luminous colors, Moore (Yoshi and the Ocean) traces a year in the life of the arctic tern—an animal that, back matter suggests, may experience more sunlight than any other ...

Arctic terns in Juneau have met odd ends for two years running, and they’ve just returned for another season. Two years ago, several nests of eggs laid by the globe-trotting seabirds were ravaged by a ...

An Arctic tern chick being fed sand lance. UMass Amherst ecologists led the first comprehensive assessment of this important forage fish in the Northwest Atlantic, where sand lance are a significant ...

Michael Ellis takes a look at a pair of seabirds that have set remarkable records for long-distance flying. Years ago, on my first pelagic birding trip in the middle of foggy Monterey Bay, the ...

Rangers on a Northumberland Coast nature reserve, home to the UK's largest mainland colony of Arctic terns, have admitted that they are "on tenterhooks" to see how the seabirds fare after the outbreak ...

Arctic terns undertake an astonishing 70,000 km migration, relying on ocean 'refuelling stations' for sustenance. New research reveals these birds meticulously follow food-rich upwelling zones across ...

WORCESTER CO., Md. - A tern raft floating in the Chincoteague Bay in Worcester County is celebrating its fifth successful ...

COIMBATORE: Bringing much joy to the birders’ community, two species of terns have been spotted at the Puthalam saltpans in Kanniyakumari. This is said to be the first time these seabirds have been ...