… I tagged and followed through hatching nests located 1) in open meadows, 2) under leafed-out
vegetation, and 3) under vegetation either not leafed-out or dead. On Clark's Island, gulls …

… Nests located greater distances from water should have lower predation rates. (2) Nests located
… (3) Females that nest early in the nesting season should have lower egg mortality due to …

… was conducted to quantify the relationships between hatching success and (i) the nest-site …
that hatching success on this beach was very low (38.2%). This study illustrates that nest-site …

… This suggests that the lower hatching success observed in nests above and below mean
elevation results primarily from a higher percentage of undeveloped eggs in such …

… When all nests were considered, Common Tern nests were located significantly lower than
were random point elevations at two sites, as they tended to concentrate on low-lying wrack. …

… located close to vegetation because of lower nest temperatures due to shade (Wilson 1998).
Hatching success … influenced by microhabitat characteristics or nest location in this study, …

… I located some unmarked nests at the time of hatching, and in 20 of these nests the matching
rate was 73%, thus digging up nests did not appear to affect the hatching rate. During each …

… of nesting turtles, as well as hatching success of eggs, are presented. The objectives were to
determine (1) if the start of the nesting … nests were located by tracking the turtles to their nest …

… How nesters choose sites, their capacity to shift locations in response to changing conditions…
at the time of nesting were significantly correlated to hatching success and females selected …

… nest orientation and hatching success showed that success was lower among the nests located
… For the analyses of hatching success we only considered nests in which eggs were laid. …