Successful restoration of the Ice Island common tern colony requires on-going control of ring-billed gulls

Waterbirds

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 98-101

  Blokpoel, Hans ^a   Tessier, Gaston D ^a   Andress, R A ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Common Tern; Conservation; Decoys; Gull exclusion; Larus delawarensis; Restoration; Ring billed Gull; St. Lawrence River; Sterna hirundo

Indexed keywords

HIRUNDO; LARIDAE; LARUS DELAWARENSIS; STERNA HIRUNDO;

COMMON TERN; COMPETITOR EXCLUSION; CONSERVATION;

CANADA, ONTARIO, ST LAWRENCE RIVER, ICE ISLAND;

EID: 0031395519     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521769     Document Type: Article

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