An artificial raft as a nesting site for terns on the Dee
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Published source details
Eades R. (1970) An artificial raft as a nesting site for terns on the Dee. Seabird, 2, 45-45.
Published source details Eades R. (1970) An artificial raft as a nesting site for terns on the Dee. Seabird, 2, 45-45.
Summary
Provide artificial nesting sites for ground and tree-nesting seabirds
A study in 1970 in an industrial reservoir in north Wales, UK (Eades 1970) reported that an artificial raft was used by common terns Sterna hirundo. Within two months of installing the raft, two pairs of terns had “taken up residence” on it. Over the first breeding season after installing the raft, 16 chicks were ringed. The authors note that more chicks probably fledged before being ringed. An artificial raft was installed in a reservoir within a steelworks in March 1970. The raft was made from telegraph poles and timber covered with slag, shingle and grass sods. Polystyrene provided buoyancy. Terns were surveyed over the 1970 breeding season.
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