Chick Survival in Terns (Sterna Spp.) with Particular Reference to the Common Tern

10.2307/3475 ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 385 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. P. E. Langham
Keyword(s):  
Common Tern ◽  
Chick Survival ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Does the vicinity of the Black-Headed Gull colony (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) increase the breeding success of the Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) on the islands of the middle Vistula?

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Dariusz Bukackiński ◽  
Monika Bukacińska ◽  
Milena Grabowska
Keyword(s):  
Hatching Success ◽  
Single Species ◽  
Common Tern ◽  
Egg Mass ◽  
Chick Survival ◽  
Effective Protection ◽  
Vistula River ◽  
Nesting Site ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

We conducted our study in the Common Tern colony (STH) located on an island in the middle Vistula River course, at the height of the city of Dęblin (km 393–394 of the waterway), in 2017. Our goal was to investigate some aspects of the biology and reproductive ecology of this species. Due to the fact that STH breeds both in single-species as well as in two- or multi-species colonies, in associations with Little Terns (Sternula albifrons), Black-Headed Gulls (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) (LAR) and/or Mew Gulls (Larus canus), we wanted to investigate whether the neighborhood of other species (in this case LAR) affected hatching success and chick survival in STH. Our results clearly show that the presence of breeding terns in the neighborhood of the LAR colony was not accidental and/or caused by the lack of space on the island and/or the possibility of nesting elsewhere. The height of nesting site, type of nesting habitat, clutch size, mean egg volume and mean egg mass of these STH pairs did not differ significantly from those that formed a single species colony, on the same island but several hundred meters away. However, STH nests in the neighborhood of the LAR colony were established much earlier and both the hatching success and chick survival of STH during the early-chick stage were twice as high. Thus, we can conclude that the LAR colony could provide an effective protection against predation of crows, magpies and gulls, dangers which accounted for the vast majority of STH nest failures in the year of our study.

Hatching asynchrony, chick care, and adoption in the common tern: can disadvantaged chicks win?

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 661-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph D. Morris ◽  
Michelle Woulfe ◽  
G. D. Wichert
Keyword(s):  
Foster Parents ◽  
Hatching Asynchrony ◽  
Common Tern ◽  
Sterna Hirundo ◽  
Feeding Rates ◽  
Chick Survival ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Fledging Success ◽  
Significant Survival ◽  
The Common

In 1987 and 1988, common tern (Sterna hirundo) chicks at a colony near Port Colborne, Ontario, were individually colour banded according to known hatch order. Intraclutch hatch intervals produced size disparities among chicks at brood completion; third-hatched chicks were significantly lighter and at a significant survival disadvantage compared with their earlier-hatched siblings. There were differences in feeding rates according to hatch order and many third-hatched chicks obtained fewer or no feedings during our periods of observation. Sixty-five chicks known to have abandoned their home broods gained acceptance into foreign broods. Chicks that remained in the foreign brood for more than 2 days (average residency 11.9 ± 5.3 days; n = 26) were fed and brooded by the foster parents, were on average older than the youngest resident chick, but were not always the last hatched in their home brood. Conversely, chicks that were in a foreign brood for less than 2 days were no different in age from the youngest resident chick. Survival and fledging success was highest for chicks accepted into two chick broods in which they were older than the resident second chick; in effect, the adoptee became the second chick. Parents that accepted a foreign chick for more than 2 days experienced a seasonal fitness loss compared with nonadopting parents. As the only viable option available to them, selection favours movement away from home broods by chicks that may be disadvantaged there.

Mothers under stress? Hatching sex ratio in relation to maternal baseline corticosterone in the common tern (Sterna hirundo)

2013 ◽  
Vol 199 (9) ◽  
pp. 799-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Riechert ◽  
Olivier Chastel ◽  
Peter H. Becker
Keyword(s):  
Sex Ratio ◽  
Common Tern ◽  
Sterna Hirundo ◽  
Baseline Corticosterone ◽  
The Common

scholarly journals Evolution of innate and adaptive immune genes in a non-model waterbird, the common tern

2021 ◽  
pp. 105069
Author(s):  
Piotr Minias ◽  
Joanna Drzewińska-Chańko ◽  
Radosław Włodarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Common Tern ◽  
Immune Genes ◽  
Adaptive Immune ◽  
The Common

ON THE NEST AND EGGS OF THE COMMON TERN (S. FLUVIATILIS). A THIRD COOPERATIVE STUDY

Biometrika ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 15 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 294-345
Author(s):  
D. M. S. WATSON ◽  
KATHERINE M. WATSON ◽  
HELGA S. PEARSON ◽  
M. NOEL KARN ◽  
J. O. IRWIN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Common Tern ◽  
Cooperative Study ◽  
The Common

XII.-Letters, Extracts, and Notes. The Breeding of the Common Tern in Palestine.

Ibis ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 294-296
Author(s):  
W. K. Bigger
Keyword(s):  
Common Tern ◽  
The Common

Population Genetics and Gene Flow of the Common Tern

The Condor ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 182-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherman L. Burson
Keyword(s):  
Population Genetics ◽  
Gene Flow ◽  
Common Tern ◽  
The Common

Renal and Extrarenal Sodium Excretion in the Common Tern Sterna hirundo

1968 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryanne Robinson Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Excretion ◽  
Common Tern ◽  
Sterna Hirundo ◽  
The Common

On the Nest and Eggs of the Common Tern (S. Fluviatilis). A Third Cooperative Study

Biometrika ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 15 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
D. M. S. Watson ◽  
Katherine M. Watson ◽  
Helga S. Pearson ◽  
M. Noel Karn
Keyword(s):  
Common Tern ◽  
Cooperative Study ◽  
The Common
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