Migrations and winter quarters of five common terns tracked using geolocators

Waterbirds

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-39

  Nisbet, Ian C T ^a   Mostello, Carolyn S ^b   Veit, Richard R ^c   Fox, James W ^d   Afanasyev, Vsevolod ^d  

^a ICT Nisbet and Company   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Common Tern; geolocator; Massachusetts; migration; seabird; staging; Sterna hirundo; winter quarters

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; MIGRATION; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL; TRACKING; WINTER;

PUERTO RICO; SOUTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; STERNA HIRUNDO;

EID: 79953662274     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/063.034.0104     Document Type: Article

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