Golden autumn sunlight glints through the sedges and shrubs of the tundra in northern Alaska. Winter is approaching, and soon the region will be buried under snow and ice. For the past three months ...

After contorting under boulders for puffin chicks, chasing skittish tern chicks in the weeds and sitting as stone-silent sentinels in bird blinds to observe feeding and behavior, the five-person ...

The Arctic tern is a small seabird with one of the most extraordinary migration stories in the natural world. Every year, it travels from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back, covering nearly 70,000 ...