The Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis, is a threatened coastal seabird that breeds in colonies on wide-open beaches.Their nests are simple, consisting of a scrape in the sand where ...

Photo shows A baby fairy tern with its wings stretched out. Fears nesting spot for one of WA's smallest seabirds could be disrupted by waterfront development. Topic: Birds.

Fairy terns are flocking to Western Australia's south-west coast as breeding season gets underway, but the sandy shores of Mandurah remain quiet after last year's disastrous summer. Nearly 50 ...

Fairy terns don’t usually nest near people, but to the city’s great pride and joy, they did start having chicks in Mandurah. It was a success story—until it wasn’t.

There are fewer than 3,000 breeding pairs of fairy terns left in Western Australia, with around 700 of those in the Perth metro area. They are threatened by humans, animals and rising sea levels.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Following last year's record-breaking find of two 20-year-old fairy terns in Mandurah, a new nesting sanctuary has been established ...

These fairy tern chicks are still alive but not yet out of danger. They were born in different years, one on New Year's eve and the other on New Year's Day. Photo / Laura Patience/DoC Northland's ...

A “GORGEOUS” South Australian bird, the fairy tern, is starving and on the brink of extinction, bird lovers say.

The Department of Conservation holds grave fears for the safety of New Zealand's most endangered indigenous breeding bird, the New Zealand fairy tern (tara-iti).