Characteristics of predators and offspring influence nest defense by Arctic and Common Terns

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 301-306

  Whittam, Rebecca M ^a,b   Leonard, Marty L ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Bird Studies Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic Tern; Common Tern; Nest defense; Predation; Sterna hirundo; Sterna paradisaea

Indexed keywords

LARUS ARGENTATUS; LARUS MARINUS; STERNA HIRUNDO; STERNA PARADISAEA;

EID: 0034029654     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369641     Document Type: Article

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