osprey

(Newser) - Stepping onto an old wooden duck blind in the York River, Bryan Watts looks at a failed osprey nest, taken over by diving terns. "The birds never laid here this year," says Watts, near the mouth of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay. "That's a pattern we've...

(Newser) - Workers needed to replace a light fixture at a park in Calvert County, Maryland, so first they removed the osprey nest that was atop the fixture. What officials did next has caused outrage in the community: Two young ospreys were taken from the nest and euthanized, the Washington Post reports....

(Newser) - A pair of ospreys has quieted a fire alarm in one New Jersey shore town, and that has ruffled some feathers in the fire department. The raptors built a nest inside the siren used by Spring Lake's fire department and first-aid squad. By law, the nest can't be...