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.

From wild nests to the Auckland Zoo, the rarest bird in New Zealand just wrapped up its breeding season — and it was a ...

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 ...

Bird experts have raised concerns the redevelopment of Bunbury's waterfront could put vulnerable fairy terns at risk, after a study revealed 50 per cent of their nests in Western Australia fail.

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.

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.

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 ...

Baby fairy terns. Credit: Cherilyn Corker. The Mandurah fairy tern breeding program has been a long-running project by the City of Mandurah, ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE (CBSMiami) -- The South Florida Wildlife Center is nursing two baby Least Tern birds back to health after being displaced by the bad weather over the weekend. The Least Tern, the ...

A $135,000 legal bill to help protect the New Zealand fairy tern has been rejected, with a judge saying groups should have worked together instead.. The Environment Court action came about after a ...