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Egg Characteristics of Female Common Terns Are Repeatable, and Vary With Maternal Age and Laying Order. [PDF]
Ecol EvolAvian eggs exhibit striking variability in size, shape, colour, and maculation, not only among but also within species. Technical and analytical advances in image analysis offer the opportunity to understand the factors underpinning this variability ...
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Nesting seabirds in SE Spain: distribution, numbers and trends in the province of Almería
Scientia Marina, 2003 Little is known on the abundance of seabirds breeding in southeastern Spain. This study reports on the distribution, numbers and population trends of breeding colonies of this avian group in this region.
Mariano Paracuellos, Juan Carlos Nevado
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Microorganisms, 2021 Discovery and study of viruses carried by migratory birds are tasks of high importance due to the host’s ability to spread infectious diseases over significant distances.
Alina Matsvay +8 more
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Diversity, 2022 We applied two recent approaches largely used in biological conservation: Threat Analysis (TAN) and Threat Reduction Assessments (TRAs), assessing the effectiveness of a project focused on two water-related bird species (common tern, Sterna hirundo and ...
Pietro Giovacchini +2 more
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Seabird metapopulations: searching for alternative breeding habitats [PDF]
, 2009 Today, many seabird species nest in port areas, which are also necessary for human economic activity. In this paper, we evaluate, using a metapopulation model, the possibilities for creating alternative breeding sites for the Common Tern (Sterna hirundo)
Robbert P. H. Snep +11 more
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Attendance of scavenging seabirds at trawler discards off Galicia, Spain
Scientia Marina, 2003 The occurrence of scavenger seabirds at fishing trawlers was studied off Galicia, Spain. A total of 9,368 seabirds of 23 species were recorded during 92 fishing operations in 1998 and 1999.
Julio Valeiras
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The effect of localized disturbance on the acoustic behavior of the common tern (Sterna hirundo) [PDF]
JASA Express LettersIn this study, passive acoustic monitoring was used to assess the impact of investigator disturbance on the acoustic behavior of a colony of common terns. A graded antipredator response in the colony was hypothesized, which would result in an increase in
J. E. Brosseau +4 more
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Geolocator study reveals east African migration route of Central European Common Terns
Avian Research, 2020 Background The majority of European Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) migrate south along the western coast of Europe and Africa, while birds from eastern regions are known to cross the Mediterranean Sea from east to west or migrate along the eastern African
Jelena Kralj +5 more
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Laying eggs on the same nest: unusual mixed-species clutch among three colonial shorebirds
AvocettaMixed clutches are relatively uncommon among colonial shorebirds and challenging to document. Here, we report the co-occurrence of three species’ eggs, belonging to Pied Avocet Recurvirostra avosetta, Little Tern Sternula albifrons and Common Tern ...
Paolo Salvador, Stefano Sponza
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The comparative breeding ecology of sympatric common and arctic terns in N.E. England [PDF]
, 1999 The life-history traits of two sympatric seabird species, the Common Sterna hirundo and Arctic Tern S. paradisaea, and the flexibility of these traits in relation to short and longer term changes in environmental conditions were measured at Coquet Island,
Robinson, J.A. +1 more
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