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Roseate Terns Rising from the Brink | New Bedford News
The roseate tern, with its striking pink chest, was once on the brink of extinction—down to just a few hundred pairs in the 1980s due to feather hunting and habitat loss. Now, thanks to decades of dedicated conservation in Massachusetts’ Buzzards Bay, where over 60% of North America’s breeding population nests, numbers have surged to more than 4,000 pairs—tripling in a decade. Conservationists are fighting back with creative tactics: restoring nesting islands, managing predators, protecting their common tern allies, and even playing music to scare off herons. With climate change and…
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