Individual foraging strategies of kleptoparasitic Roseate Terns

Waterbirds

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 436-441

  Shealer, David A ^a   Spendelow, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a LORAS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data pooling; Falkner Island; Food theft; Foraging behavior; Kleptoparasitism; Parental care; Roseate Tern; Sterna dougallii

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; KLEPTOPARASITISM; SEABIRD;

CONNECTICUT; FALKNER ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; STERNA DOUGALLII;

EID: 0036951603     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2002)025[0436:ifsokr]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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