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Our first sad news from the tern raft.  Two weeks ago, as many of you know who live close by, we experienced a two and a half day storm of

It’s been a bit since our last update on the tern raft……we’ve been busy!  A very interesting year has unfolded, and we are currently up to………………………….226 nests!  “Wowza” is what

This time last year we were excited to announce that we had 13 nests on the platform, as of today, we are at 136! Last year we banded 110 adults,

They went from 4 nests with eggs on Monday to….. (drum roll, please)….. 32 nests yesterday (May 18)!!

The gull numbers on the raft had been continually (unfortunately) increasing the past couple of weeks, with only a few Common Terns trying to take their raft back. When the

Introducing OH1! We are excited to announce our first returning bird was spotted today, April 18th! We banded him/her (don’t know yet,) as an adult on June 15th, 2022. It

We are very pleased to announce that the Tern Raft is back in action out in the bay and ready for Common Terns to show up! The launch date was

Final updates this year, and what a successful year it was! We ended the season with 155 Common Tern nests, a total of 181 chicks banded, 91 adults banded, and

If you recall, the American Oystercatcher chick that has fledged in July, or at least we hoped fledged in July, was spotted on Assateague and is alive and looking healthy!

This summer, we banded 180 common tern chicks with a metal USGS band on their right leg. Most of those received a field readable band on their left leg. The