Tag: terns

June 8, 2021

Drone crash leads to large-scale seabird nest loss

A drone operator flying the device in an illegal protected sanctuary caused seabirds to abandon hundreds of eggs after the drone crashed to the ground among the nests in California....

October 5, 2020

WSB: Caspian terns resist efforts to recover imperiled fish

Caspian terns with a taste for young salmon are resisting many of the management efforts put forth to protect imperiled salmon in the fishery. The seabirds nest on small islands...

December 4, 2019

WSB: Fake birds help conserve New Zealand terns

Conservationists can attract threatened terns to nesting habitat safe from invasive predators in New Zealand by deploying fake bird models and using speaker systems to play bird sounds. Black-fronted terns...

March 22, 2016

Drones more precise for seabird monitoring

Frigatebirds nesting on the ground among herbaceous vegetation in tropical areas or penguins in remote sub-Antarctic areas of Australia are difficult for some researchers to get to and monitor. But new...