Feeding grounds, daily foraging activities, and movements of Common Terns in southern Brazil, determined by radio-telemetry

Waterbirds

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 468-477

  Bugoni, Leandro ^a,e   Cormons, Thomas D ^b   Boyne, Andrew W ^c   Hays, Helen ^d  

^a Museu Oceanográfico Eliézer de Carvalhos Rios   (Brazil)

^b Canadian Wildlife Service ^*  (United States)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Common Tern; Feeding ecology; Foraging; Otolith; Radio tracking; South America; Sterna hirundo; Wintering grounds

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; OTOLITH; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEABIRD;

BRAZIL; RIO GRANDE DO SUL; SOUTH AMERICA;

AVES; LARIDAE; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 33646235200     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2005)28[468:FGDFAA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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