Scientific Articles

Cane, W. P. 1994. Ontogenetic evidence for relationships within the Laridae. Auk, 111:873-880

Collins, C. T. 1970. The Black-crowned Night Heron as a predator of tern chicks. Auk, 87:584-586.

Collins, C. T., and M. LeCroy. 1972. Analysis of measurements, weights, and composition of Common and Roseate Tern eggs. Wilson Bull., 84:187-192.

Connors, P. G., V. C. Anderlini, R. W. Risebrough, M. Gilbertson, and H. Hays. 1975. Investigations of heavy metals in Common Tern populations. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 89:157-162.

Cooper, D., H. Hays and C. Pessino. 1970. Breeding of the Common and Roseate Terns on Great Gull Island. Proc. Linnaean Soc. New York, 71:83-104.

Cormons, G. D. 1976. Roseate Tern bill color change in relation to nesting status and food supply. Wilson Bull., 88:377-389.

Coulter, M. 1980. Stones: an important incubation stimulus for gulls and terns. Auk, 97(4):898-899.

Coulter, M. 1981. A source of variation in avian growth studies: undigested food. J. Field Ornith., 52:62.

Coulter, M. 1981. The flora of Great Gull Island, Long Island, New York. Bull. Torrey Botanical Cl., 108:272-277.

Coulter, M. 1982. Development of runt Common Tern chick. J. Field Ornith., 53:276-278.

Coulter, M. 1986. Assortative mating and sexual dimorphism in the Common Tern. Wilson Bull., 98:93-100.

*DiCostanzo, J. 1978. Great Gull Island: Migrants banded in 1977. Linnaean News-Letter, 31(8).

*DiCostanzo, J. 1978. Occurrences of the Common Tern in the interior of South America. Bird-Banding, 49:248-251.

*DiCostanzo, J. 1978. Great Gull Island: Migrants banded in 1978. Linnaean News-Letter, 32(6).

DiCostanzo, J. 1980. Population Dynamics of a Common Tern Colony. J. Field Ornith., 51(3):229-243.

DiCostanzo, J. 1999. The Butterflies of Great Gull Island: A Preliminary Checklist. Linnaean News-Letter, 53(2).

DiCostanzo, J., R. E. Harrison, and J. O. Biderman. 1978. Photographs of New York State rarities. 28. Townsend's Warbler. Kingbird, 28:150-151.

Donaldson, G. 1968. Bill color changes in adult Roseate Terns. Auk, 85:662-668.

Donaldson, G. 1969. Roseate Tern in unusual plumage. Bird-Banding, 40:255.

Donaldson, G. 1971. Roseate Tern breeds during its second year. Bird-Banding, 42:300.

*Duffin, K. 1973. Barn Swallows use freshwater and marine algae in nest construction. Wilson Bull. 85:237-238.

*Duffy, D. C. 1970. Observations on Great Gull Island -- summer 1969. Kingbird, 20:169-170.

*Duffy, D. C. 1971. Report on Great Island: summer, 1970. Kingbird, 21:60-61.

*Duffy, D. C. 1973. Records from Great Gull Island, 1972. Kingbird, 22:163-164.

*Duffy, D. C. 1977. Breeding populations of terns and skimmers on Long Island Sound and eastern Long Island: 1972-1975. Proc. Linnaean Soc. New York, 73:1-48.

*Duffy, D. C. 1977. Incidence of oil contamination on breeding Common Terns, Bird-Banding, :370-371.

Duffy, D. C. 1986. Foraging at patches:interactions between Common and Roseate Terns. Ornis., 17:47-52.

Duffy, D. C. 1988. Predator-prey interatctions between Common Terns and Butterfish. Ornis Scand., 19(2):160-162.

*Duffy, D. C., and C. LaFarge. 1973. The Birds of Great Gull Island. The Linnaean Society of New York, 44 pp.

*Duffy, D. C., and A. Poole. 1973. The status of the Least Tern on eastern Long Island in 1972. Linnaean News-Letter, 27(1).

*Grimm, C. T. 1977. Hoary Bat in Niantic, Connecticut, in January. Proc. Linnaean Soc. New York, 73:85-86.

Hamilton, J. 1981. Recoveries of Wintering Roseate Terns. J. Field Ornith. 52:36-42.

Hays, H. 1969. Differential survival among nestling Redwinged Blackbirds after a storm. Auk, 86:563-564.

Hays, H. 1970. Common Terns pirating fish on Great Gull Island. Wilson Bull., 82:100.

Hays, H. 1970. Great Gull Island report on nesting species, 1967-1968. Proc. Linnaean Soc. New York, 71:105-119.

Hays, H. 1971. Roseate Tern, Sterna dougallii, banded on Atlantic coast recovered on Pacific. Bird-Banding, 42:295.

Hays, H. 1972. Polyandry in the Spotted Sandpiper. Living Bird, 11:43-57.

Hays, H. 1975. Probable Common X Roseate Tern hybrids. Auk, 92:219-234.

Hays, H. 1978. Timing and breeding success in three- to seven-year-old Common Terns, Ibis, 120:127-128. (Summary of a paper given at a conference on "The changing seabird populations of the north Atlantic, Aberdeen Univ, 26-28 March 1977)

Hays, H. 1984. Common Terns raise young from successive broods. Auk, 101:274-280.

Hays, H. 1993. Roseate Tern trio fledges three young. Auk, 110(3)653-658.

Hays, H. 1998. Common Tern and Roseate Tern species write-ups in John Bull s Birds of New York. Cornell University Press. 1998.

Hays, H. and G. D. Cormons. 1970. Sand-kicking camouflages young Black skimmers. Wilson Bulletin, 82:100.

Hays, H., and G. D. Cormons. 1973. Plastic particles found in Tern pellets, on coastal beaches and at factory sites. Linnaean News-Letter, 27(5).

Hays, H., J. DiCostanzo, G. Cormons, P. de Tarso Zuquim Antas, J. L. Xavier do Nascimento, I. de Lima Serrano do Nascimento, R. E. Bremer. 1997. Recoveries of Common and Roseate Terns in South America. J. Field Ornith. 68(1):79-90.

Hays, H, E. Dunn, and A. Poole. 1973. Common, Arctic, Roseate and Sandwich Terns carrying multiple fish. Wilson Bull. 85:233-234.

Hays, H., and M. LeCroy. 1971. Field criteria for determining incubation stages in eggs of the Common Tern. Wilson Bull., 83:425-429.

Hays, H., P. Lima, L. Monteiro, J. DiCostanzo, G. Cormons, I.C.T. Nisbet, J.E. Saliva, J.A. Spendelow, J. Burger, J. Pierce and M. Gochfeld. (1999) A Nonbreeding Concentration of Roseate and Common Terns in Bahia, Brazil. . J. Field Ornith., 70(4): (in press)

Hays, H., and K. C. Parkes. 1993. Erythrystic eggs in the Common Tern. J. Field Ornith., 64(3):341-345.

Hays, H., and R. W. Risebrough. 1972. Pollutant concentrations in abnormal young terns from Long Island Sound. Auk, 89:19-35.

Heilbrun, L. H. 1970. Great Gull Island, its history and biology. Proc. Linnaean Soc.New York, 71:55-79.

*Houde, P. 1977. Low productivity of terns on Hicks Island, 1975. Proc. Linnaean Soc. New York, 73:49-57.

*Houde, P. 1977. Gull-tern interactions on Hicks Island, 1975. Proc. Linnaean Soc. New York, 73:58-64.

Jenner, J. 1970. In Camille's wake a Wide-a-wake. Kingbird 20:13.

*LeCroy, L. 1972. Monarch Banding on Great Gull Island. Linnaean News-Letter, 26(4).

LeCroy, M. 1972. Young Common and Roseate Terns learning to fish. Wilson Bull., 84:201-202.

LeCroy, M., and C. T. Collins. 1972. Growth and survival of Roseate and Common Tern chicks. Auk, 89:595-611.

LeCroy, M., and S. LeCroy. 1974. Growth and fledging in the Common Tern (Sterna hirundo). Bird-Banding, 45:326-340.

*MacFarlane, A. E. 1977. Roof-nesting by Common Terns. Wilson Bull., 89:475-476.

Parkes, K. C. 1985. Yellow-rumped warbler in flight feather molt on Great Gull Island. Kingbird, 35:114-115.

Parkes, K. C. 1985. Several "adult" Common Terns attempt to feed juveniles. British Birds,78:147-148.

Parkes, K. C. 1988. A brown-eyed adult Red-eyed Vireo specimen. J. Field Ornith. 59(1):60-62.

Parkes, K. C. 1993. Erythristic Northern Orioles. Kingbird, 43(1):13-17.

Parkes, K. C., A. Poole, and H. Lapham. 1971. The Ruddy Turnstone as an egg predator. Wilson Bull., 83:306-308.

Pasquier, R. F. 1973. Parasitic Jaegers seen from Great Gull Island, N.Y. Kingbird, 23:75-78.

Pasquier, R. F. 1977. Herring Gull eating bayberry. Wilson Bull., 89:338.

Pasquier, R. F., and A. Poole. 1972. Visitants to Great Gull Island during the summer of 1971. Kingbird, 22:75-76.

Pessino, C. 1968. Redwinged Blackbird destroys eggs of Common and Roseate Terns. Auk, 85:513.

Pessino, C. 1970. Great Gull Island visits:1962-1966. Proc. Linnaean Soc. New York, 71:80-82.

Ricklefs, R. E. 1979. Patterns of Growth in Birds. V. A Comparative Sudy of Development in the Starling, Common Tern, and Japanese Quail. Auk, 96:10-30.

Ricklefs, R. E. and S. C. White. 1981. Growth and Energetics of Chicks of the Sooty Tern(Sterna fuscata) and Common Tern (S. hirundo). Auk, 98:361-378

Schaeffer, F. 1967. Some Gull Island Field Work. Linnaean News-Letter., 21(1).

Schaeffer, F. 1967. The Barn Swallows of Great Gull Island. Eastern Bird Banding Association News, 30:221-223.

Spendelow, J. A., J. Burger, I. C. T. Nisbet, J. D. Nichols, J. E. Hines, H. Hays, G. D. Cormons and M. Gochfeld. 1994. Sources of Variation in Loss Rates of Color Bands Applied to Adult Roseate Terns (Sterna dougalli) in the Western North Atlantic. Auk, 111:881-887.

Spendelow, J.A., J.D. Nichols, I.C.T. Nisbet, H.Hays, G.D. Cormons, J.Burger, C. Safina, J.E. Hines, and M.Gochfeld. 1995. Estimating annual survival and movement rates within a metapopulation of Roseate Terns. Ecology 76(8):2415-2428.

*Van't Hof, T. 1974. Spring migration on Great Gull Island, 1974. Kingbird, 24:170-172.

*Windels, M. 1981. Observations on a Snowy Owl at Great Gull Island. Kingbird, 31(2):65-66.

Popular Publications

Dancis, D. 1986. The Terns Return. Urban Audubon. August - September.

Dancis, D. 1993. My 1992 Great Gull Island Birdathon. Linnaean News-Letter. 47(2).

DiCostanzo, J. 1992. Hurricane Bob on Great Gull Island. Linnaean News-Letter, 46(7).

Harwood, M. 1976. The View From Great Gull. E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York. 139 pp.

Harwood, M. 1980. Great Gull Island. Smithsonian, 11:28-37.

Hays, H. 1980. Great Gull Island Past and Present. Linnaean News-Letter, 34(2).

Hays, H. 1980. The Liberated Spotted. Anima, 5(86):26-30.

Hays, H. 1984. The vole that soared. Natural History. 93(5):7-16.

Hays, H. 1985. 1985 Great Gull Island Report. Linnaean News-Letter, 39(6).

Hays, H. 1987. Great Gull Island Project Report for 1986. Linnaean News-Letter, 40(7).

Hays, H. 1988. Great Gull Island Annual Report: 1987. Linnaean News-Letter, 41(8).

Hays, H. 1989. Great Gull Island Report - 1988 (Part 1). Linnaean News-Letter, 42(8,9).

Hays, H. 1989. Great Gull Island Report - 1988 (Part 2). Linnaean News-Letter, 43(1).

Hays, H. 1990. Great Gull Island Report: 1989. Linnaean News-Letter, 44(2).

Hays, H. 1991. Great Gull Island Project Report - 1990. Linnaean News-Letter, 44(9).

Hays, H. 1991. Great Gull Island Project Report - 1991. Linnaean News-Letter, 45(7).

Hays, H. 1992. Great Gull Island Report: 1992. Linnaean News-Letter, 46(5).

Hays, H. 1993. Great Gull Island Report: 1993. Linnaean News-Letter, 46(7).

Hays, H. 1995. Great Gull Island Report: 1994. Linnaean News-Letter, 48(8).

Hays, H., and R. W. Risebrough. The early warning of the terns. Natural History, 80(9):38-47.

Hussey, L. J., and C. M. Pessino. An Island Venture. Natural History, April 1951.

Pessino, C. 1970. An island for the birds. Nature and Science, 7(16):4-6.

Talbot, C. 1978. The Great Rat Island Adventure. Dutton.

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