Last eggs in White-winged Tern clutches are not smallest; are Marsh Terns different from other larids?

Waterbirds

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 457-461

  Bargieł, Rafal ^a   Bańbura, Jerzy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

C eggs; Chlidonias leucopterus; Egg sizes; Intra clutch patterns; Larids; White winged Tern

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; LAYING DATE; SEABIRD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

CHLIDONIAS; CHLIDONIAS LEUCOPTERUS; LARIDAE;

EID: 1342269780     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2003)026[0457:LEIWTC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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