Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
46 | Chapter 3 First catch your immature seabird. I myself have caught many thou- sands of seabirds by metal hook or nylon noose ...
the meandering years of immatUrity | 47 seabirds may visit several colonies. In the latter part of the breeding season, namely l ...
48 | Chapter 3 simply captured, by withdrawing them from their nesting burrow. At the season of this project, incubation was nea ...
the meandering years of immatUrity | 49 extent to which this inferior performance of the young birds was due to lower efficiency ...
50 | Chapter 3 age reverse one trend but continue another. They spend a little more time on the water than five- month juveniles ...
the meandering years of immatUrity | 51 take him south to the icebergs, around 60°S. A direct consequence of this age- and gende ...
CHAPTER 4 Adult Migrations 20,000 Leagues over the Sea Sometimes our knowledge of the natural world relies on deduction rather t ...
adUlt migrations | 53 the urge to wish it well ahead of the imminent life- and- death combat in the dark under immense pressures ...
54 | Chapter 4 data showed all had headed south over the ocean on their autumn mi- gration. All had stopped on a Caribbean islan ...
adUlt migrations | 55 shuttle back and forth between far north and far south on a wing and a prayer: The Arctic Tern’s Prayer Te ...
56 | Chapter 4 about 330 km/day; 11,000 km while (relatively!) dawdling in Antarctic waters, and finally 26,000 km northbound at ...
adUlt migrations | 57 the South Georgia region in the summer. And, thirdly, 12 birds com- pleted at least one eastward circumnav ...
58 | Chapter 4 Labrador, possibly enjoying the same food as their fellow Puffins breed- ing rather later in North America. Remar ...
adUlt migrations | 59 mythical creature breeding in the high Arctic. There, fewer than 200 nests have been found since the very ...
60 | Chapter 4 startling information. Without question one of the biggest surprises involved Red- necked Phalaropes. These charm ...
adUlt migrations | 61 Malcie Smith, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds’ Fetlar warden takes up the story.^9 “We knew ...
62 | Chapter 4 and the Galápagos Islands. Returning to Fetlar in spring, the phalarope more or less recapitulated its southbound ...
adUlt migrations | 63 which birds from different colonies, on the one hand, mingle outside the breeding season or, on the other ...
64 | Chapter 4 Arctic Circle in Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, and Norway, as well as further south in Iceland, Faeroes, the North ...
adUlt migrations | 65 two groups of Cook’s Petrel. These signatures were different and, in both cases, matched the signatures of ...
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