Postbreeding dispersal and staging of Common and Arctic Terns throughout the western North Atlantic

• Published in: Avian Conservation and Ecology
• Main Authors: Pamela H. Loring, Robert A. Ronconi, Linda J. Welch, Philip D. Taylor, Mark L. Mallory
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2017
• Subjects: Arctic Tern; automated radio telemetry; Common Tern; dispersal; seabird; staging; Sterna hirundo; Sterna paradisaea; very high frequency (VHF) tags; envir; geo; Antarctic; Arctic; Canada; Manan; Nantucket; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Arctic tern; Common tern; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-01086-120220; https://doaj.org/article/27ee419d7f20413f906d6a7be1b016c9

In the western North Atlantic, Common (Sterna hirundo) and Arctic (S. paradisaea) Terns are sympatric at breeding colonies but show divergent migration strategies to coastal areas of South America and pelagic regions of the Antarctic, respectively. During 2013, we studied postbreeding movements of a...