Foraging and chick-provisioning ecology of Roseate Terns breeding at Rockabill, in Ireland: Foraging and chick-provisioning ecology of Roseate Terns breeding at Rockabill, in Ireland

Martin Perrow, Andrew Harwood, Richard Berridge, Brian Burke, Stephen Newton and Daniel Piec

Abstract Rockabill, in Co. Dublin, supports the most important colony of Roseate Terns Sterna dougallii in Europe, testament to intense conservation effort over the last 30 years. This paper describes the first boat-based visual tracking of Roseate Terns from Rockabill and relates this to observations o

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