Least Tern
| Sternula antillarum | Order: Charadriiformes | Family: Laridae (Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers) |
Sternula antillarum
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae (Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers)
This elegant little bird breeds along coastal beaches and interior rivers in the United States and on coastal beaches along Mexico; also on Caribbean islands and islands off the coast of South America. Few winter anywhere in the U.S. Nesting Least Terns are as vulnerable on beaches as nesting Piping Plovers, but seem even more skittish when people come near.
Laura's Published Works
Radio Programs
- Birding in the Tiniest State 2019
- Vulnerable Waterfront Birds 2017
- Book Review: Heather Wolf's Birding at the Bridge 2016
- One Good Tern Deserves Another: Roseate Terns 2016
- Least Terns 2016
- Piping Plovers Here and There 2016
- Pip: Laura's future birding sidekick 2015
- My Big Year So Far, Part II: The Joys and Frustrations of Birding All Over 2013
- Kansas! 2013
- Keeping a Life List 2012
- San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary 2012
- Trip down Memory Lane: Savannah 2010
- Florida Scrub-Jay: Number 600! 1999
- Cats! 1997
- Lists 1991