Predation on common tern eggs by the yellow-legged gull at the Ebro Delta

• Published in: Scientia Marina
• Main Authors: Hernández-Matías, Antonio, Ruiz, Xavier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas 2003
• Subjects: conservation; seabird community; colonialism; nest losses; conservación; comunidades de aves marinas; colonialismo; pérdidas en nido; Pequeñas; Gaviota; Charrán común; Common tern; Sterna hirundo
• Online Access: https://scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es/index.php/scientiamarina/article/view/551; https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.2003.67s295

The Ebro Delta holds a large seabird community, including a common tern (Sterna hirundo) local population of 3,085 pairs in 2000 which breeds scattered in several colonies. At El Canalot colony, 1,178 (1999) and 1,156 pairs (2000) of this species bred distributed in 32 and 38 sub-colonies respective...