Interactions between Double-crested Cormorants and Herring Gulls at a shared breeding site

Waterbirds

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-250

  Somers, Christopher M ^a,b   Lozer, Marie N ^a   Quinn, James S ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Double crested Cormorant; Herring Gull; Nest site competition

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BREEDING SITE; COLONY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HATCHING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; NESTING SUCCESS; SEABIRD;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES; HAMILTON HARBOR; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

AVES; CLUPEIDAE; LARUS ARGENTATUS; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS;

EID: 34547474203     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2007)30[241:IBDCAH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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