It has been a good breeding season this year for New Zealand's most endangered bird - the fairy tern. Data collected over the breeding season at the Mangawhai Wildlife Refuge shows the current ...

The nesting area of a fairy tern "super colony" has been devastated in WA's South West almost halfway through the threatened species' breeding season. The colony, made up of at least 350 breeding ...

Baby fairy terns.Credit: Cherilyn Corker The City and its project partners have worked to clear the site and spread shell to provide optimal nesting conditions, and have also installed fencing to ...

GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. The Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis, is a threatened coastal seabird that breeds in colonies on wide-open beaches.

Conservationists are celebrating the recent arrival of this rare fairy tern chick at Mangawhai. Conservationists are celebrating the birth of one of New Zealand's rarest birds at Mangawhai.

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 ...

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 ...