Effects of Motorboats and Personal Watercraft on Flight Behavior over a Colony of Common Terns
- 1 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 100 (3) , 528-534
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1369719
Abstract
I examined the flight behavior of Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) over a nesting colony in Barnegat Bay, New Jersey in 1997. I used the number of birds flying ove...Keywords
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