The Puget Sound's Caspian Tern population has been ravaged by H5N1, also known as avian flu.

LONGVIEW — A carrot-and-stick project to cut the number of salmon-gobbling terns on an island near the mouth of the Columbia River is set to begin, scientists from the Army Corps of Engineers say.

More than half a colony of Caspian terns on a small island near Port Townsend died last year amid an outbreak of bird flu, underscoring the harsh effects the disease can have on wildlife.

On a tiny uninhabited wash of ground near the river's mouth, thousands of squabbling Caspian terns pack the sand like giant cotton balls ...

OSU researchers helped lure the Caspian terns to Crump Lake, which is northeast of Lakeview, with decoys and recorded sounds of nesting terns that they had recorded in the Columbia estuary.

The colony of 9,000 Caspian terns eat about 5 million juvenile salmon annually. LONGVIEW, Wash. – A carrot-and-stick project to cut the number of salmon-gobbling terns on an island near the ...

Study findings provide new details on a Caspian tern die-off near Port Townsend in 2023 and how the virus killed seals in the region, infecting their brains.

Caspian terns are visually striking, with bright coral bills, black caps and white bodies. The birds move like ballet dancers in the air but sound like truckers at a roadside bar.

Along with the Caspian terns, they were the most numerous birds that afternoon. It didn’t take long before the sound of terns was heard.

Caspian terns are visually striking, with bright coral bills, black caps and white bodies. The birds move like ballet dancers in the air but sound like truckers at a roadside bar.

wants to build a 1-acre rock and sand island in to help attract more salmon-eating Caspian terns away from the mouth of the Columbia River. It would be the seventh such lake the corps has built in ...

OSU researchers helped lure the Caspian terns to Crump Lake, which is northeast of Lakeview, with decoys and recorded sounds of nesting terns that they had recorded in the Columbia estuary.