Integrating species-centric and geomorphic-centric views of interior least tern and piping plover habitat selection [PDF]
Heliyon, 2018 The Federally endangered interior least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) and threatened piping plover (Charadrius melodus) nest on emergent sandbars in several braided rivers in the USA.
Jason M. Farnsworth +2 more
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A comprehensive epidemiological approach documenting an outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus clade 2.3.4.4b among gulls, terns, and harbor seals in the Northeastern Pacific [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceHighly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV) H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b continue to have unprecedented global impacts on wild birds and mammals, with especially significant mortality observed in colonial surface-nesting seabirds and in some marine mammal ...
Katherine H. Haman +28 more
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First documented records of Black-throated Flower-piercer, Diglossa brunneiventris (Lafresnaye, 1846) (Aves, Thraupidae), and Least Tern, Sternula antillarum (Lesson, 1847) (Aves, Laridae), on the southern coast of Peru [PDF]
Check List, 2021 We report Black-throated Flower-piercer, Diglossa brunneiventris (Lafresnaye, 1846), and Least Tern, Sternula antillarum (Lesson, 1847), in the Tambo river estuary, Islay province, Arequipa department, Peru.
Yuri A. Peña +3 more
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Usurpation and Brooding of Least Tern (Sternula antillarum) Chicks by Common Terns (Sterna hirundo)
Diversity, 2023 While nest usurpation and subsequent incubation of eggs and even brooding of chicks from other species has been reported for Common Terns (Sterna hirundo), such behavior is considered rare.
Jeffery D. Sullivan +8 more
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Journal of Field Ornithology, 2023 Here, we document major seabird breeding recovery on a satellite island of Curaçao in the southern Caribbean following the removal of goats in 1997, significant reforestation from 2000–2005, and the extermination of cats in 2001. The only seabird to have
Adolphe O. Debrot +7 more
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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2023 Climate change and associated shifts in marine prey communities can alter food availability for foraging seabirds. This issue is illustrated in the Gulf of Maine by the northward shift of Atlantic butterfish ( Peprilus triacanthus ; hereafter butterfish)
Olivia A Smith, Elizabeth C Craig
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Ecosphere, 2021 The world's large river systems are under increasing stress to support growing populations and economies. Balancing inevitable fluvial alteration with protections of river ecosystems will require awareness of lessons learned in big river systems where ...
J. S. Alexander +2 more
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Bird community structure of small islands: a case study on the Pahawang Island, Lampung Province, Indonesia [PDF]
Silva Balcanica, 2020 Small islands are extremely vulnerable to ecosystem disturbances. One of the common factors im-pacting on island ecosystems is the rise of tourism activity and the associated conversion of man-grove forest’s function into tourism’s ...
Dian Iswandaru +8 more
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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2018 The Platte River Recovery Implementation Program (PRRIP) and its partners invested substantial resources in creating and managing off-channel nesting habitat for Interior Least Terns (Sternula antillarum athalassos) and Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus)
Patrick D. Farrell +3 more
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Reproductive success of Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida in eastern Spain in relation to water level variation [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background A study on the Whiskered Tern Chlidonias hybrida was carried out between 2002 and 2009 in wetlands of eastern Spain to evaluate how water level fluctuation affects its reproductive success (hatching, fledgling and breeding success).
Álvaro Ortiz Lledó +2 more
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