Responses of Common Tern Chicks to feather sample removal

Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 646-650

  Palestis, Brian G ^a   Stanton, Michael D ^a,b  

^a WAGNER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Dominica)

Author keywords

Common Tern; Feather samples; Investigator disturbance; Semi precocial; Sterna hirundo

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; FEATHER; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SEABIRD;

EID: 84884491091     PISSN: 15594491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1676/13-002.1     Document Type: Article

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