Composition, spatial and temporal variation of Common and Arctic Tern chick diets in the Gulf of Maine

• Main Authors: Hall, CS, Kress, SW, Griffin, CR
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2000
• Subjects: Arctic Tern; Common Tern; chick diet; Maine; Sterna hirundo; Sterna paradisaea; Arctic; Hake; Arctic tern; Common tern
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/nrc_faculty_pubs/142

From 1990-1997, we observed food deliveries to Common (Sterna hirundo) and Arctic (S. paradisaea) tern chicks in the Gulf of Maine; deliveries were observed at four Common Tern colonies from 1991-1997 and at three Arctic Tern colonies from 1990-1997. Dietary overlap was high, 0.812. Fish comprised o...