Data describing the use of a newly identified staging area on Patuxent River Naval Air Station by banded Common Terns.

These data describe the demographic composition of Common Terns at a newly identified staging area on the Patuxent River Naval Air Station and evaluates the importance of this location to the local breeding population. Specifically, we sought to identify the number of individuals using this potential staging area, the origins of those individuals, and the relative importance of this location to locally hatched juveniles.