Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
170 | Chapter 9 Watch a cormorant or shag arch its body as it slips underwater, and it is difficult to resist admiring a bird th ...
how seabirds catch food | 171 to complete hundreds of dives per day when absent from their colonies. To pluck a couple of exampl ...
172 | Chapter 9 long (longer than 12 min). Of 137364 dives recorded by 93 penguins 264 dives [0.2%] reached depths greater than ...
how seabirds catch food | 173 ing krill, there is a coincidence between catching individual krill, as re- corded by back- mounte ...
174 | Chapter 9 starlight, conditions they would eschew by day.^23 Whether the birds have the visual abilities to detect prey fr ...
how seabirds catch food | 175 utes if its body processes continued to function as they do when it is breathing air. This ‘limit’ ...
176 | Chapter 9 examination of the plumage showed that each cormorant body feather has a loose, instantaneously wet, outer secti ...
how seabirds catch food | 177 ‘exploding’ out of the sea to jump a metre or more onto the security of ice beyond the jaws of a L ...
178 | Chapter 9 If diving seabirds tend to be freewheeling on their ascents, this may give them the extra agility that aids grab ...
how seabirds catch food | 179 It almost defies belief that the seabirds we see in two dimensions, essentially at or very close t ...
CHAPTER 10 The Clash Seabird Interactions with People – Past, Present and Future Despite their truly remarkable ability to forge ...
the clash | 181 harvesting continues, it is, from a worldwide perspective, no longer a primary cause of seabird decline. More si ...
182 | Chapter 10 On the Australian sub- Antarctic island of Macquarie, rabbits caused immense damage to the island’s vegetation ...
the clash | 183 is wholly predictable and so tells us when this mysterious species breeds (see Chapter 1). Light pollution is an ...
184 | Chapter 10 stretch across those valleys from one misty ridge to another. Alas, the peace of the tropical night is sometime ...
the clash | 185 Patch may be not visible to passing mariners but its debris, especially plastic particles, menaces birds. In the ...
186 | Chapter 10 turbines rotating 20 times a minute, the blade’s tip is moving at close to 600 km/h, manifestly a danger to fly ...
the clash | 187 of 300 adult gannets a month, or 1,500 over the course of a Bass Rock breeding season, if two proposed farms wer ...
188 | Chapter 10 Conversely birds long ago learnt that fishing vessels were a source of fish. These fish are easily snatched; pe ...
The brutal moment when an Indian Yellow- nosed Albatross is hooked astern of a longline fishing vessel. ...
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