Use of gulls rather than terns to evaluate American Mink Mustela vison control. A response to Craik (2008)
https://doi.org/10.61350/sbj.21.104
Correspondence author. Email: notc@bas.ac.uk
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environmental Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
I thank Clive Craik for the opportunity to clarify points made in the 2006 paper. Clive presents a convincing argument that gull rather than tern productivity was a better indicator of the benefits of mink control during his study. However, I maintain that I was justified in restricting the analysis to terns in my study for three reasons: