To eat or to feed? Prey utilization of Common Terns Sterna hirundo in the Wadden Sea

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 347-357

  Dänhardt, Andreas ^a,b   Fresemann, Tido ^b   Becker, Peter H ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AVIAN RESEARCH VOGELWARTE HELGOLAND   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central place foraging; Common Tern; Feeding observations; Foraging behavior; Prey quality; Prey utilization; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL PLACE FORAGING; FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD QUALITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SEABIRD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

AVES; LARIDAE; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 79952705346     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-010-0590-0     Document Type: Article

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