Differences in diet and chick provisioning between adult Roseate and Sandwich Terns in Puerto Rico

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 131-140

  Shealer, David A ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

Chick provisioning; Diet; Prey selection; Roseate Tern; Sandwich Tern; Sterna

Indexed keywords

ANCHOA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEIDAE; ENGRAULIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; HARENGULA; HYPOATHERINA HARRINGTONENSIS; JENKINSIA LAMPROTAENIA; LARIDAE; OPISTHONEMA; PISCES; STERNA; STERNA DOUGALLII; STERNA SANDVICENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031908928     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369904     Document Type: Article

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