On Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will propose taking the interior population of the least tern off the endangered list. (USACE, Memphis District via AP) ...

Once diminished by hunting for feathers for hats and hurt by the damming of major rivers like the Missouri, the interior least tern population has increased tenfold since 1985, to more than 18,000.

A 1990 recovery plan set an overall population goal of 7,000 birds, which has been exceeded since 1994. Tern population size targets for recovery have been met in the Mississippi, Red and Arkansas ...

Across North America, black tern numbers have dropped by 61% during the past 50 years. In Michigan, that number is even more dire, with the species’ population down by 71%.

On Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will propose taking the interior population of the least tern off the endangered list. (USACE, Memphis District via AP) WASHINGTON (AP) ...

An outbreak of bird flu may have had lasting effects on the Caspian tern population on the Washington coast. A study conducted by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and researchers ...

Despite Hurricane Debby's severe impact on coastal wildlife on Florida's Gulf Coast, the state's royal tern population has increased thanks to a successful breeding season at Huguenot Memorial ...

White Terns (Gygis alba) are common in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, but in the main Hawaiian Islands they are found only on Oahu, where they are listed as threatened by the State of Hawaii. I ...

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 ...