Improvement in chick provisioning with parental experience in a seabird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1095-1101

  Limmer, Bente ^a   Becker, Peter H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

Author keywords

age difference; chick growth; common tern; diet spectrum; experience; feeding behaviour; feeding efficiency; recruit; Sterna hirundo

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PORT; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; WILHELMSHAVEN;

AVES; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 64549125123     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.015     Document Type: Article

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