WASHINGTON—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the interior least tern, a small bird that nests along major rivers in the midwestern and southern United States, has fully recovered ...

Proposed bills would ease protections for shorebirds at MA beaches. What does that mean for Cape Cod and nesting piping plovers?

Rep. Ken Sweezey, R-Duxbury, has filed bills related to recreational beach access in MA – some of which ease environmental protection for birds.

According to the F-W-C, these birds are also threatened by the state of Florida and protected.

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - During the summer months, migrating birds make their temporary homes on the beaches of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. There are plenty of helpers making sure the least terns grow ...

Erik Johnson steps carefully across what looks like an empty stretch of beach on the Elmer's Island Wildlife Refuge. But slow down and squint hard, Johnson says, and you'll start to see a threatened ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - The interior least tern, a hardy Midwestern bird that survived a craze for its plumage and dam-building that destroyed much of its habitat, has soared off the endangered ...

The San Diego Audubon Society, a chapter of the National Audubon Society, is helping to restore nesting sites for a species of endangered bird in Mission Bay. The California least tern, recognized ...