Sex, age, experience and condition as factors affecting arrival date in prospecting common terns, Sterna hirundo

By T. Dittmann, P. Becker. 2003

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Effect of PIT Tags on the Survival and Recruitment of Great Tits Parus major (2008, unknown): “…tags having no deleterious effects on the behaviour and survival of either adults (Becker & Wendeln 1997, Clarke & Kerry 1998, Kenward et al. 2001, Dittmann & Becker 2003, Low et al. 2005) or juveniles (e.g. Carver et al. 1999, Gonzalez-Solis 1999, Jamison et al. 2000, Gauthier-Clerc et al. 2004,…”
Migration within the annual cycle: species, sex and age differences (2011, background): “At a colony of Common Terns Sterna hirundo in Germany, fledglings were marked with transponders, allowing their subsequent return to be registered automatically (Dittman and Becker 2003).”
Can conditions experienced during migration limit the population levels of birds? (2006, background): “…birds arriving on their breeding areas, with the earliest arrivals being the heaviest, as in barn swallows Hirundo rustica (Møller 1994), garden warblers Sylvia communis (Widmer and Biebach 2001), American redstarts (Smith and Moore 2005), and common terns Sterna hirundo (Dittman and Becker 2003).”