The Puget Sound's Caspian Tern population has been ravaged by H5N1, also known as avian flu. Provided by Steve Hampton More than 1,500 adult Caspian terns made Rat Island, near Port Townsend ...

Caspian terns are migratory and return to the Northwest in late April or May after wintering elsewhere, mostly in southern California and Mexico. They can live for 20 years or more.

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, ... in northern Puget Sound, were wiped out.

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.

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.

EAST SAND ISLAND, Columbia River — On a tiny uninhabited wash of ground near the river’s mouth, thousands of squabbling Caspian terns pack the sand like giant cotton balls — fluttering on ...

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.

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 ...

Migratory birds – Caspian terns, two types of cormorants, pelicans and gulls – found the island ideal for breeding and foraging for fish in the estuary. The tern population grew, reaching a ...

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.

Tim Young: And we realized we didn't want a repeat of what the other company had done last summer. Peterson: A year ago, more than 400 Caspian and elegant tern hatchlings dropped off the sides of ...

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.