Audubon Magazine

Friends in High Places

AST JUNE, COASTAL BIRD technician Chloe St. Germain-Vermillion found herself chasing a tiny, speckled Least Tern chick through a cavernous New Orleans storage center. As the leader of a new conservation program run by Audubon Delta, she’d been keeping a keen eye on a tern colony nesting on the building’s flat roof, from which the bird had tumbled. After a slapstick scramble to catch the uninjured hatchling, she returned it to

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