Over 3,000 elegant terns fled their nesting grounds at California's Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve after an illegal drone crashed near the birds' wetland area Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE ...

Nesting birds are extremely sensitive to disturbance and fireworks do not stay contained to one location. Light and noise ...

Bird conservationists are hailing the recovery of the Elegant Tern, an endangered bird species that has relocated its primary nesting site to Mission Bay. But some area residents aren’t thrilled with ...

Volunteers from San Diego Gas & Electric help restore nesting grounds for the California least tern. (Photo courtesy of SDG&E) On a recent morning at Mariners Point in Mission Bay, the crisp air was ...

Shorebird nesting continues on Anna Maria Island.

Arctic terns came back to Juneau in late April to nest at the Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area. Gwen Baluss, a wildlife technician with the U.S. Forest Service, ensures their safety. She said signs ...

Roughly 1,500 elegant tern eggs were abandoned at a southern California nesting island after a rogue drone crash-landed and scared off thousands of birds, the Orange County Register and New York Times ...

Little terns are easy to overlook if people do not know what they are seeing. They are small, quick, and often dwarfed by the open coastline around them. But for conservationists, wardens, and ...

Despite help from businesses in an industrial park, habitat-starved least terns still seem to be on the wane. "So far this year, we've seen an enormous decline," said Beth Forys, a professor of ...

It was the gifts he brought that Carol Otis noticed first, small fishes plucked from the shallows of the Atlantic Ocean and given in courtship to a female least tern. Otis, an avian enthusiast and ...