Space use by Forster's Terns breeding in South San Francisco Bay

Waterbirds

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-364

  Bluso Demers, Jill ^a,d   Colwell, Mark A ^a   Takekawa, John Y ^b   Ackerman, Joshua T ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d San Francisco Bar Bird Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding stage; Colony differences; Forster's Tern; Radio telemetry; San Francisco Bay; Sex differences; Space use; Sterna forsteri

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; MONOGAMY; PARENTAL CARE; RADIOTELEMETRY; REARING; SEABIRD; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SPACE USE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; UNITED STATES;

LARIDAE; STERNA FORSTERI;

EID: 58049204001     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695-31.3.357     Document Type: Article

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