Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
158 | Chapter 8 clusters, there was no obvious division of the trip into commuting and feeding phases. Consequently they foraged ...
where seabirds find food | 159 was undertaken in June/July, when immatures are visiting the colony fairly frequently and are arg ...
160 | Chapter 8 different species consistently and predictably use different tracts of the ocean. At the extremes, the answers a ...
where seabirds find food | 161 some examples, beginning with kittiwakes. The familiar Black- legged Kittiwake breeds around the ...
162 | Chapter 8 similar weight, around 150– 180 g, and similar unexciting plumage, grey above, white below. The most obvious dif ...
CHAPTER 9 How Seabirds Catch Food Some seabirds feed onshore in very obvious ways. Gulls gather at the local tip, await the arri ...
164 | Chapter 9 the booby, head raised uncomfortably in flight, croaks. This may be an- noyance, it may be appeasement. But the ...
how seabirds catch food | 165 reflex action. Only then do the birds decide whether to swallow. Or bring into the mind’s eye a ho ...
166 | Chapter 9 Arctic Circle or yet further north experience minimal daylight, hinting they must do some feeding during darknes ...
how seabirds catch food | 167 28,000 images that, once collated by Yutaka Watanuki, showed the alba- trosses to be feeding on la ...
168 | Chapter 9 squid. They are. Information from attached magnetometers has revealed that, in certain regions of the ocean, the ...
MAP 1. A map to show how, compared with immatures, breeding Northern Gannets tend to travel over a smaller area and do not visit ...
MAP 3. The remarkable migration tracks of 11 Arctic Terns tracked via geolocators from breeding colonies in Greenland (10 birds) ...
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MAP 5. Map showing the foraging trip, lasting almost 15 days, of a male Northern Ful- mar GPS- tracked from Eynhallow, Orkney, t ...
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Puffin EJ09593, 2008–2009 0 1 (^212) 11 10 C 9 8 1000 km Puffin EJ47617, 2008–2009 0 (^21) 12 11 10 9 C 8 1000 km Puffin EJ47617 ...
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20° S 30° S 40° S 50° S 60° S 70° S Pacific Ocean Antarctic prions thin-billed prions blue petrels Polar Front MAP 12. The large ...
how seabirds catch food | 169 supremely able to catch prey on the darkest nights. Very probably the fact that the principal prey ...
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