Least Tern Birds

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the interior least tern is endangered due to destruction, alteration, and curtailment of nesting habitat. The least tern bird was put on the endangered list May 28, 1985 and has since been on the endangered list. The cause of Channelization, irrigation, and the construction in many reservoirs and pools have been a major cause to the elimination of much of the tern’s sandbar nesting habitat in the Arkansas and Red River systems. The birds can be found inhabiting in sandbars of the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Red Rivers during the summer months while they nest and raise their young. Least terns also nest on artificial habitats such as sand and gravel pits, dredge inlands, dike fields along the Mississippi River, ash disposal areas of power

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