| Selected articles (Mainly about piping plovers and least terns) Send me more related citations and I will be glad to include them in the list -Allen G. T. , Backford S. H., and D. Welsh. 1998. Arsenic, Mercury, Selenium, and Organochlorines and Reproduction of Interior Least Terns in the Northern Great Plains, 1992-1994. Colonial Waterbirds 21 (3): 356-366 -Atwood J. L. 1986. Delayed Nocturnal Occupation of Breeding Colonies by Least Terns (Sterna antillarum). The Auk 103: 242-244. -Atwood J. L. and B. W. Massey. 1988. Site Fidelity of Least Terns in California. The Condor 90: 389-394 -Avery M. L., Pavelka M. A., Bergman D. L., Decker D. G., Knittle C. E., and G. M. Linz. 1995. Aversive conditioning to reduce raven predation on California Least Tern eggs. Colonial Waterbirds 18 (2): 131-138 -Baker M. C. 1979. Morphological correlates of habitat selection in a community of shorebirds (Charadriiformes) Oikos 33: 121-126. -Beissinger S. R. and M. I. Westphal. 1998. On the use of demographic models of population viability in endangered species management. Journal of Wildlife Management 62 (3): 821-841. -Belant J. L. 1997. Gulls in urban environments: landscape-level management to reduce conflict. Landscape and Urban Planning 38: 245-258. -Bent A. C. 1921. Life History of North American Gulls and Terns. Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum . -Bogliani G. and F. Bellinato. 1998. Conditioned aversion as a tool to protect eggs from avian predators in heron colonies. Colonial Waterbirds 21 (1): 69-72. -Brown K. M., Tims J. L., Erwin R. M., and M. E. Richmond 2001. Changes in the nesting populations of colonial waterbirds in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, New York, 1974-1998. Northeastern Naturalist 8 (3): 275-292. -Brubeck M. V., Thompson B. C., and R. D. Slack 1981 The effect of trapping, banding, and patagial tagging on the parental behavior of Least terns in Texas. Colonial Waterbirds 4: 54-60. -Brunton D. 1997. Impacts of predators: Center nests are less successful than edge nests in a large nesting colony of least terns. The Condor 99: 372-380. -Brunton D. 1999. "Optimal" colony size for Least Terns: An intercolony study of opposing selective pressures by predators. The Condor 101 (3): 607-615. -Buckley P. A. and F. G. Buckley. Population and Colony-Site Trends fo Long Island Waterbirds for five years in the mid 1970. Long Island Waterbirds 23-56. -Burger J. 1984. Colony Stability in Least Terns. The Condor 86: 61-67. -Burger J. 1988. Social attraction in nesting Least Terns: Effects of numbers, spacing, and pair bonds. The Condor 90: 575-582. -Burger J. 1989. Least Tern Populations in Coastal New Jersey: Monitoring and Management of a Regionally-Endangered Species. Journal of Coastal Research 5 (4): 801-811. -Burger J. 1996. Laughing Gull (Larus atricilla). The Birds of North America 225. -Burger J. 1994. Heavy metals in avian eggshells: another excretion method. 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Foraging and breeding adaptations to different food regimes in three seabirds: the Common Tern, Sterna hirundo, Royal Tern, Sterma maxima, and Black Skimmer, Rynchops niger. Ecology 58: 389-397. -Espie R. H. M., Brigham R. M., and P. C. James. 1996. Habitat selection and clutch fate of piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) breeding at Lake Diefenbaker, Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 1069-1075. -Flemming S.P., Chiasson R. D., and P. J. Austin-Smith. 1992. Piping plover nest site selection in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Journal of Wildlife Management 56 (3): 578-583. -Gochfeld M. and J. Burger. 1998. Temporal trends in metal levels in eggs of endangered Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii) in New York. Environmental Research 77: 36-42. -Good T. P. 1998. Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus). The Birds of North America 330. Jan-32 -Haig S. 1992. Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus). The Birds of North America 2. -Hill L. A and L. G. Talent. 1990. Effect of capture, handling, banding, and radio-marking on breeding least terns and snowy plovers Journal of Field Ornithology 61 (3) 310-319 -Hothem R. L. and A. N. Powell. 2000. Contaminants in eggs of western snowy plovers and California least terns: is there a link to population decline? Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 65: 42-50. -Jackson, J. A. 1994. Terns on tar beach. Natural History 103 (7): 46-53. -Kirsch E. M. and J. G. Sidle. 1999. Status of the Interior population of Least Terns. Journal of Wildlife Management 63 (2): 470-483. -Kirsh E. M. 1996. Habitat Selection and Productivity of Least Terns on the Lower Platte River, Nebraska. Wildlife Monographs 132: 1-48. -Koenen M. T., R. B. Utych, and D. M. Leslie, Jr. 1996. Methods used to improve least tern and snowy plover nesting success on alkaline flats. Journal of Field Ornithology 67 (2): 281-291. -Kress S. W and C. S. Hall . 2000. Regional Tern Management Plan-Northeastern U.S. and Atlantic Canada. 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Waterbirds 23 (2): 270-276. -Maxson S. J., Mortensen S. A., Goodermote D. L., and C. S. Lapp. 1996. Success and failure of ring-billed gull deterrents at common tern and piping plover colonies in Minnesota Colonial Waterbirds 19 (2) 242-247. -Mayfield H. F. 1961. Nesting Success Calculated from Exposure. The Wilson Bulletin 73 (3): 255-261. -Mayfield H. F. 1975. Suggestions for Calculating Nest Success. Wilson Bulletin 87 (4): 456-466. -McNicholl M. K. 1975. Larid site tenacity and group adherence in relation to habitat. The Auk 92: 98-104. -1998-1999 Long Island Colonial Waterbird and Piping Plover Survey New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. -Nisbet I. C. T., Spendelow J. A., Hatfield J. S., Zingo J. M., and G. A. Gough. 1998. Variations in growth of reseate terns chicks: II. Early growth as an index of parental quality. The Condor 100 (2): 305-315. -Patterson M. E., Fraser J. D., and J. W. Roggenbuck. 1991. Factors affecting piping plover productivity on Assateague Island. Journal of Wildlife Management 55 (3): 525-531. -Patterson M. E., Fraser J. D., and J. W. Roggenbuck. 1990. Piping plover ecology, management, and research needs. Virginia Journal of Science 41 (4A): 419-426. -Pickett S. T. A., Cadenasso M. L., Grove J. M., Nilon C. H., Pouyat R.V., Zipperer W. C. and R. Costanza 2001. Urban Ecological Systems: Linking Terrestrial Ecological, Physical, and Socioeconomic Components of Metropolitan Areas. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 32: 127-157. -Plissner J. H. and S. Haig 2000. Status of a broadly distributed endangered species: results and implications of the second international piping plover census. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78: 128-139. -Plissner J. H. and S. Haig 2000. Viability of piping plover Charadrius melodus metapopulations. Biological Conservation 92: 163-173. -Powell A. N. 2001. Habitat characteristics and nest success of snowy plovers associated with California least terns. The Condor 103 (4): 785-792. -Powell A. N. and C. L. Collier. 2000. Habitat use and reproductive success of Western snowy plovers at new nesting areas created for California least terns. Journal of Wildlife Management 64 (1): 24-33. -Powell A. N. and F. J. Cuthbert. 1993. Augmenting small populations of plovers: an assessment of cross-fostering and captive-rearing. Conservation Biology 7 (1): 160-167. -Ramos J. A. 2000. Characteristics of foraging habitats and chick food provisioning by tropical Roseate Terns. The Condor 102 (4): 795-803. -Reed J. H. 1998. The terns of Great Gull Island, NY, during 1897. The Auk 115 (1): 276-277. -Renken R. B. and J. W. Smith. 1995. Interior Least Terns site fidelity and dispersal. Colonial Waterbirds 18 (2): 193-198. -Rimmer D. W. and R. D. Deblinger. 1992. Use of fencing to limit terrestrial predator movements into least tern colonies. Colonial Waterbirds 15 (2): 226-229. -Rodgers J. A. and H. T. Smith. 1995. Set-back distances to protect nesting bird colonies from human disturbance in Florida. Conservation Biology 9 (1): 89-99. -Rodwy M. S. and H. M. Regehr. 1999. Habitat selection and reproductive performance of food-stressed Herring Gulls. The Condor 101 (3): 566-576. -Safina C. 1990. Bluefish mediation of foraging competition between Roseate and Common Terns Ecology 71 (5): 1804-1809. -Safina C. and J. Burger. 1985. Common Tern foraging: seasonal trends in prey fish densities and competition with bluefish. Ecology 66 (5): 1457-1463. -Schekkerman H. and G. H. Visser. 2001. Prefledging energy requirements in shorebirds: energetic implications of self-feeding precocial development. The Auk 118 (4): 944-957. -Schew W. A. 1990. Ecological and Environmental determinants of growth patterns of terns. Dissertation� -Schweitzer S. H. and D. M. Leslie, Jr. 1996. Foraging patterns of the least tern (Sterna antillarum) in North-Central Oklahoma. The Southwestern Naturalist 41 (3): 307-314. -Schweitzer S. H. and D. M. Leslie, Jr. 1999. Nesting habitat of least terns (Sterna antillarum athalassos) on an inland alkaline flat. The American Midland Naturalist 142 (1): 173-180. -Sidle J. G. and D. E. Carlson. 1992. Flooding: Mortality and habitat renewal for least terns and piping plovers. Colonial Waterbirds 15 (1): 132-136. -Sidle J. G. and E. M. Kirsch. 1993. Least Terns and Piping Plover Nesting at sand Pits in Nebraska. Colonial Waterbirds 16 (2): 139-148. -Smith J. W. and R. B. Renken. 1991. Least Terns Nesting habitat in the Mississippi River Valley Adjacent to Missouri. Journal of Field Ornithology 62 (4): 497-504. -Sommers L. A. and M. L. Alfieri. 1998. 1997 Long Island Colonial Waterbird and Piping Plover Survey New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. -Spendelow J. A., Nichols J. D., Nisbet I. C. T. and H. Hays. 1995. Estimating survival and movement rates of adults within a metapopulation of roseate terns. Ecology 76 (8): 2415 -Thompson B. C., Jackson J., Burger J., Hill L. A., Kirsch E. M., and J. L. Atwood. 1997. Least Tern (Sterna antillarum). The Birds of North America 290: 01-32. -U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2000. 1999 status update: U.S. Atlantic Coast piping plover population. http://pipingplover.fws.gov/status/index.html -Verbeek N. A. M. and R. W. Butler. 1999. Northwestern Crow (Corvus caurius). The Birds of North America 407. -Voigts D. K. 1999. Observations of a colony of roof-nesting least terns, 1988-1997. Florida Field Naturalist 27 (3): 103-108 -West A. D., Goss-Custad J. D., Stillman R. A., Caldow R. W. G., le V. dit Durell S. E. A., and S. McGrorty. Predicting the impacts of disturbance on shorebird mortality using a behavior-based model. Biological Conservation -Wolcott D. L. and T. G. Wolcott. 1999. 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