Saunders County

Alisa Halpin (left) floats a least tern egg in a cup of water to determine the age of the nest; the buoyancy of the egg shows how many days old the eggs are. Her daughter, Summer Larkihn, marks the number of the nest on a rock for future reference as part of the Tern and Plover Conservation Partnership. (Photo courtesy of Sophia Balunek.)

Ag News, Avian, Outdoors

Mother-daughter pair pursues conservation of Nebraska’s terns, plovers

Halpin and Larkihn share an abiding appreciation for Nebraska’s interior least terns and piping plovers, birds long the focus of national conservation protection. Read More