A Tale of a Tern

Among the many beautiful seabirds that grace Florida's coasts is the tiny least tern, a feisty creature that scrapes out its nest on open beaches or on the graveled roofs of manmade buildings. Its life is an exciting but harrowing one from birth to maturity, migration and returning to find a mate, nest and raise its own young. These threatened birds migrate 2,000 from Brazil to the coast of Florida to raise their young, arriving in April and leaving in late summer, after their young are st...