The bird—also known as Manu-o-Kū—has excited ornithologists, its population growing within Honolulu, the busiest of Hawai’i’s urban landscapes Joe Spring, Photography by Melody Bentz, Hakai A seabird ...

Kaʻiulani Murphy is quick to spot white terns flapping their wings when she’s guiding Polynesian voyaging canoes across the Pacific. The birds hunt for food at sea and lay eggs on land. So traditional ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Before you trim your trees or begin cutting back hedges, you need to check for tiny eggs that have been laid on tree branches. These eggs are watched over by two small, white birds ...

BIRD copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Nada Kramar Endowment Income Fund. "White Terns are native throughout the world's tropics and subtropics, where they breed almost ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Regarding humans, some terns have taken the approach of ...

A tropical bird that lost its way has found a safe haven in Bermuda after a journey of thousands of miles. The sighting of a white tern is the first time that the bird has been recorded in Bermuda ...

A shorebird native to Eurasia that was last recorded in Wisconsin in 1873 has been spotted along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Manitowoc. A white-winged tern was identified on Saturday afternoon at ...

The boats were already circling Kubbar Island by the time the Kuwait Environmental Lens team arrived. Yachts and day-trippers ringed the shoreline, families cooling off in the shallows, children ...

HONOLULU — Kaʻiulani Murphy is quick to spot white terns flapping their wings when she's guiding Polynesian voyaging canoes across the Pacific. The birds hunt for food at sea and lay eggs on land. So ...