Another birder, Chad Wilson, also saw the smallish tern. The question all asked was, "What is it?" After examining lots of photos and computer research, the group contacted other bird experts online.

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the interior least tern, a small bird that nests along major rivers in the midwestern and southern United States, has fully recovered ...

Assuming bird flu did not return to the bird population in Northumberland for the next few years, last year's poor Arctic tern chick survival rate was unlikely to affect long-term population ...

An Inca Tern swoops over the water. (Pic credit: Don Emmert / AFP via Getty Images) “We are understandably very concerned for their welfare and would appreciate anyone who may sight these birds ...