The Arctic tern is a slender, gull-like seabird that weighs about as much as a deck of cards, yet it undertakes the most extreme journey known in the animal kingdom. Every year it travels from ...

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 ...

Arctic terns—which fly on the longest migrations of any animal on Earth—may be able to navigate the dangers posed by climate change, new research suggests. The birds live in near-perpetual daylight, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife photographer Dania Sanchez captured this Arctic tern during a rare sighting at Padre Island National Seashore. (Dania ...

Explore how birds like the Arctic tern and cuckoo use magnetic vision, celestial cues, and evolved flyways to navigate ...

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 ...

National Trust says latest figures encouraging – with numbers of birds on the rise – but work still to be done England’s most important tern colonies are showing signs of recovery after being hit by ...

Spring migration has largely wrapped up across Texas, but birders are still flocking to one stretch of coastline for a visitor that rarely appears there. Among them was Dania Sanchez, president of the ...