The south end of Fort Myers Beach is a nesting site for many of Southwest Florida's protected shorebirds. Those include black skimmers, least terns, snowy plovers, Wilson's plovers and more.

Among the gulls I saw squawking and zigzagging over Galveston Bay was a small gull-like bird flying like an aerial acrobat in smooth swoops over the water. The bird was a Forster’s tern that fluttered ...

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 ...

Fort Myers Beach, Florida, is a nesting site for various protected shorebirds, including black skimmers and least terns. Beach nesting season lasts from April 1 to August 31. Visitors are advised to ...