Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
26 | Chapter 1 the ships, but also of fellow gannets and indeed other birds hoping for discarded fish and other fishery spoils. ...
introdUction to the world’s seabirds | 27 cluster of individuals can be monitored by a single scanner. That ap- proach has been ...
CHAPTER 2 Taking the Plunge Seabirds’ First Journeys None of us remembers being born. But suppose the normal human tra- jectory ...
taking the PlUnge | 29 on a cliff ledge 80 metres above a strip of boulders sloping down to a grey- green northern sea that is r ...
30 | Chapter 2 it was the norm for immature birds of many species to remain entirely at sea, and out of reach of scientists, for ...
taking the PlUnge | 31 Equally remarkable were journeys undertaken by the Emperors’ smaller relatives, King Penguins.^3 Eighteen ...
32 | Chapter 2 One hundred years ago, George Willett described the scene on a June night at an Ancient Murrelet colony on the Al ...
taking the PlUnge | 33 this period.^7 Males made almost twice as many dives as females, on aver- age 104 versus 57 per day, a me ...
34 | Chapter 2 they begin sustained flight, indicated by ground speeds over 20 km/h averaged across the 24- hour day. While thes ...
taking the PlUnge | 35 has unquestionably been at the forefront of modern pioneering seabird research. As the years have passed ...
36 | Chapter 2 Once a seabird has the flying powers to quit the immediate nesting area, it is faced with a choice. One possibili ...
taking the PlUnge | 37 There is no reason why exploration of new areas should cease after the bird’s first few months. Børge Moe ...
38 | Chapter 2 flesh, roughly half the weight of the Titanic. This torrent’s track is ini- tially southward and eastward, thus a ...
taking the PlUnge | 39 of comparable flight efficiency. Six months after quitting Crozet, the birds were concentrated in sub tro ...
40 | Chapter 2 Southern Ocean, the Southern Giant Petrel. Giant petrels have a fierce hooked bill that can tear open the belly o ...
taking the PlUnge | 41 When young seabirds first dip a toe in salty water, it is sometimes a rather tentative dip. Think of the ...
CHAPTER 3 The Meandering Years of Immaturity Among humans, the teenage years are a time of trial and, all too often, error. This ...
the meandering years of immatUrity | 43 years without ever putting webbed foot on terra firma. Then, as the years pass and the b ...
44 | Chapter 3 substantially delayed start to breeding, over half of all individuals alive may be in their pre- breeding years. ...
STABLE ISOTOPES Many chemical elements naturally occur in more than one form. All forms (both stable and the less stable, radioa ...
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