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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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, 2023 Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record ...
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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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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 ONTOGENY OF POSTCRANIAL INTEGRATION IN THE COMMON TERN,STERNA HIRUNDO [PDF]
Evolution, 1993 Empirical and theoretical work supports the concept that developmentally or functionally related characters tend to covary and hence evolve together. However, the dynamics of the developmental processes that establish within population covariance structures are not well understood.
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Ornithological aspects on the swamp Herghelie – Mangalia (Romania) [PDF]
Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute, 2005 This ornithological notice present information on the avifauna recorded in the swamp Herghelie – Mangalia beginning with the 1998’s summer. We identified 132 species of birds.
GACHE Carmen
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Common Terns Sterna hirundo hirundo in Western Australia
The Western Australian Naturalist, 1956 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Responses of Antarctic seabird populations to past climate change
Ecography, EarlyView.Higher‐order predators such as Antarctic seabirds serve as ecological indicators of environmental change and provide a crucial trophic link between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Despite their prevalence and significance in the Antarctic ecosystem, there is a lack of understanding of the impacts of major regime shifts in paleoclimate on flighted ...
Elize Y. X. Ng +6 more
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Endangered Species Research, 2023 Co-occurring species with similar resource requirements often partition ecological niches at different spatial and temporal scales. In the Northwest Atlantic (NWA), federally endangered roseate terns Sterna dougallii nest almost exclusively in coastal ...
HD Legett +3 more
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Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Of the many pollutants wildlife is exposed to, mercury ranks among the most toxic. In birds, mercury does not only accumulate within generations, but also is transferred across generations via maternal offloading in eggs, with higher mercury concentrations found in shells of unhatched eggs.
Matteo Beccardi +5 more
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