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- Title
FORAGING STRATEGIES OF ANTARCTIC FULMARINE PETRELS.
- Authors
CREUWELS, JEROEN C. S.; ENGELHARD, GEORG H.; VAN FRANEKER, JAN A.; VAN DER VEER, WILLEM; HASPERHOVEN, JEROEN G.; RUITERMAN, WALDO
- Abstract
The article discusses a study on the chick provisioning and growth in two procellariiforms, namely, the Antarctic Petrel Thalassoica antarctica and the Southern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialoides. The study procedure included the use of leg bands and electronic tags to mark approximately 80 percent of breeding adults. An automatic weighing and identification nest-system was developed by the authors to weight the species and read their transponder number. The growth rates of chicks were computed using the individual chick mass data gathered from the artificial nest system.
- Subjects
ANTARCTIC petrel; FULMARUS glacialoides; FORAGING behavior; NEST building; CHICKS; GROWTH rate
- Publication
Marine Ornithology, 2010, Vol 38, Issue 1, p17
- ISSN
1018-3337
- Publication type
Article