Status and Distribution of Colonial Waterbirds in Coastal Virginia: 2003 Breeding Season
Watts BD. 2003. Status and Distribution of Colonial Waterbirds in Coastal Virginia: 2003 Breeding Season. CCBTR-04-06. Center for Conservation Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Survey of colonial waterbird communities. More than 800 surveys were conducted of 446 colonies during the breeding season of 2003. Colonies contained an estimated 79,343 breeding pairs of 24 species. Gulls were the most abundant group with more than 50,000 breeding pairs.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Watts, Bryan
- Date of Issue
- 2003
- Publisher
- Center for Conservation Biology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- Units
- COLO
- Keywords
- Breeding, Cormorants, egrets, Gulls, Habitat Loss, Herons, ibises, Nesting, Pelicans, skimmers, Terns