Do co-nesting Arctic and Common Terns partition foraging habitat and chick diets?

Waterbirds

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 579-587

  Rock, Jennifer C ^a   Leonard, Marty L ^a   Boyne, Andrew W ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic Tern; Chick diets; Common Tern; Foraging habitat; Habitat segregation

Indexed keywords

DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NESTING; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEABIRD;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

AMMODYTES SP.; AMMODYTIDAE; REXEA SOLANDRI; STERNA HIRUNDO; STERNA PARADISAEA; UROPHYCIS;

EID: 39449099696     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2007)030[0579:DCAACT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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