Tracking of Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea reveals longest animal migration

C Egevang, IJ Stenhouse, RA Phillips… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
The study of long-distance migration provides insights into the habits and performance of
organisms at the limit of their physical abilities. The Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea is the …

The relationship between food supply, reproductive effort and breeding success in Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea

P Monaghan, JD Uttley, MD Burns, C Thaine… - The Journal of Animal …, 1989 - JSTOR
… (1) This study compares the foraging performance, adult body condition and bree success
of arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea Pontoppidan) in a successful (Coquet I and an unsuccessful …

Dispersal and climate change: a case study of the Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea

AP Møller, E Flensted‐Jensen… - Global Change …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… We investigated long‐term patterns of natal and breeding dispersal in a coastal seabird,
the Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea, that experiences specific climatic conditions in the northern …

Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea from the Netherlands migrate record distances across three oceans to Wilkes Land, East Antarctica

RC Fijn, D Hiemstra, RA Phillips, J van der Winden - Ardea, 2013 - BioOne
Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea have an exceptionally long-distance migration, annually
travelling back and forth between the Arctic and the Antarctic. Birds from Greenland, Iceland and …

The influence of age on the breeding biology and survival of the Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea

JC Coulson, J Horobin - Journal of Zoology, 1976 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of age on the breeding biology and survival of the Arctic tern <i>Sterna
paradisaea</i> … This study has taken advantage of the large scale ringing over many …

Growth and energetics of Arctic Tern chicks (Sterna paradisaea)

M Klaassen, C Bech, D Masman, G Slagsvold - The Auk, 1989 - academic.oup.com
… We studied energy requirements of Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) chicks in the Arctic …
abolic rate and thermal conductance in Arctic Tern chicks (Sterna paradisaea) and the effect of …

The effects of fluctuating food availability on breeding Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea)

D Suddaby, N Ratcliffe - The Auk, 1997 - JSTOR
… Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea) suffered six consecutive years of almost complete
breeding failure on Shetland (Walsh et al. 1990) due to adults abandoning clutches and chicks …

Breeding Dispersal and Survival of Arctic Terns (Sterna Paradisaea) Nesting in the Gulf of Maine

CM Devlin, AW Diamond, SW Kress, CS Hall, L Welch - The Auk, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… de survie, de recapture et de dispersion de Sterna paradisaea nichant dans le golfe du Maine
et la … paradisaea adultes bagués sur ces quatre îles ont été récoltées entre 1999 et 2005. L'…

Modelling the occurrence and abundance of a colonial species, the arctic tern Sterna paradisaea in the archipelago of SW Finland

S Heinänen, M Rönkä, M Von Numers - Ecography, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… In this study, we created predictive distribution models for a colonial species, the arctic
tern Sterna paradisaea, using 14 environmental variables calculated for 525 islands in the …

Breeding biology of Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) in the Canadian High Arctic

ML Mallory, KA Boadway, SE Davis, M Maftei… - Polar Biology, 2017 - Springer
The Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea) is a well-known polar seabird which breeds around the
circumpolar Arctic, and which undertakes the longest known annual migration of any …

Overland movement and migration phenology in relation to breeding of Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea

CPF Redfern, RM Bevan - Ibis, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
It is often implicitly assumed that seabirds migrate using marine environments, but this
assumption is increasingly being challenged by electronic tracking data. The arrival and …

Effect of GPS tagging on behaviour and marine distribution of breeding Arctic Terns Sterna paradisaea

A Seward, RC Taylor, MR Perrow, RJ Berridge… - Ibis, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… We compared the utilization distributions (UDs) of breeding Arctic Terns Sterna
paradisaea obtained by GPS‐tracking 10 individuals over 2 weeks, with UDs derived from …

Feeding ecology of Sterna paradisaea Pontopp. and S. hirundo L. in the archipelago of southwestern Finland

R Lemmetyinen - Annales Zoologici Fennici, 1973 - JSTOR
The diet, size of prey fish and feeding habitats of the arctic and the common tern in the middle
and outer zones of the archipelago of southwestern Finland were studied in 1966 — 1972, …

Radar observations of northbound migration of the Arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea, at the Antarctic Peninsula

GA Gudmundsson, T Alerstam, B Larsson - Antarctic Science, 1992 - cambridge.org
An intensive migration of Arctic terns was observed from 7–9 March 1989 in Marguerite Bay
(6750'S 6730'W). The movement pattern and speed of tern flocks were analysed from time-…

[HTML][HTML] Persistent pollutants in fresh and abandoned eggs of Common Tern (Sterna hirundo) and Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) in Ireland

A Power, P White, B McHugh, S Berrow… - Marine Pollution …, 2021 - Elsevier
… eggs of Common Terns Sterna hirundo from Rockabill Island near Dublin (Ireland's
industrialised capital city) compared to Common and Arctic Terns S. paradisaea from Ireland's west …

Responses of nesting Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) to disturbance by humans

M Syrová, T Hromádková, V Pavel, P Veselý - Polar Biology, 2020 - Springer
… We tested how quickly the Arctic terns (Sterna paradisaea) nesting in two colonies in Svalbard
return to the nest after human disturbance. One colony was situated inside a town where …

Dissemination of multidrug resistant bacteria to the polar environment-Role of the longest migratory bird Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea)

EA Prakash, T Hromádková, T Jabir… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
… We have investigated the prevalence of ARB in a long-distance migratory bird, the Arctic
tern (Sterna paradisaea) captured from the Svalbard Archipelago. The birds were tagged with …

The Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea: consistency and variability in spatial use at a global oceanographic scale

CPF Redfern, RM Bevan - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2022 - int-res.com
Elucidating the ecological factors underpinning migratory strategies of seabirds is necessary
for understanding resilience to environmental change. Arctic terns Sterna paradisaea breed …

Predation and food–weather interactions drive colony collapse in a managed metapopulation of Arctic Terns (Sterna paradisaea)

LC Scopel, AW Diamond - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
… L’île Machias Seal (IMS) supportait la plus grande colonie de sternes arctiques (Sterna
paradisaea Pontoppidan, 1763) dans la métapopulation du golfe du Maine, mais l’échec …

Levels of DDT and PCB's in different stages of life cycle of the Arctic tern Sterna paradisaea and the herring gull Larus argentatus

R Lemmetyinen, P Rantamäki, A Karlin - Chemosphere, 1982 - Elsevier
∑DDT and PCB levels were analysed in samples of arctic terns and herring gulls collected
in the archipelago of southwestern Finland. Special attention was paid to the levels at …