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Acknowledgments
Generous review and assistance provided by Gail S. Fraser, Ian C. T. Nisbet, Louis Bevier, Keith Russell, and Alan Poole.
MKM appreciates access to unpublished notes of T. A. Beckett III and George K. Peck and the encouragement from Roger M. Evans to initiate studies of this species. Access to tern literature facilitated by James T. Anderson, Joanna Burger, Joann Constantinides (of Josselyn Van Tyne Memorial Library), Malcolm C. Coulter, Gail S. Fraser, Michael J. Guzy, H. J. Harris, C. Stuart Houston, Robert W. Nero, Alan Poole, Ron van den Enden, and Kenneth G. Wright. Bert Mansfield shared with MKM “his” San Francisco Bay colony site and helped to conceptualize land-based Forster’s Tern colonies. The following individuals provided un-published breeding bird atlas data: for Nevada, Ted Floyd (Great Basin Bird Observatory); Virginia, Lisa Sauseville (Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries).
Mcnicholl, Martin K., Peter E. Lowther and John A. Hall. 2001. Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri), 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/595
