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Priorities for Future Research
1) Follow individually marked birds from various colonies to determine age specific breeding parameters and lifetime reproductive success.
2) Studies of behavior, synchrony, and success in colonies of varying sizes throughout species range, including the very large colonies of the Gulf Coast.
3) Further studies of the adaptive significance of sexual dimorphism, including differential feeding by males and females.
4) Nocturnal studies of feeding behavior.
5) Physiological correlates of migratory and breeding behavior.
6) Individual and social behavior at breeding sites.
Gochfeld, Michael and Joanna Burger. 1994. Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/108
