Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
66 | Chapter 4 in successive winters. That species is Cory’s Shearwater, whose nesting stations in the North Atlantic include th ...
adUlt migrations | 67 Now the twist. Maria Dias’ team tracked Cory’s Shearwaters from the colony on the Salvage Islands, just no ...
68 | Chapter 4 between males and females, as already outlined for Wandering Alba- trosses? And how does the birds’ behaviour in ...
adUlt migrations | 69 petrels. It nests in the wet dense forest of the west coast of New Zea- land’s South Island. Once breeding ...
70 | Chapter 4 2– 4 weeks. From there, they continued to the next point, off Ecuador and northern Peru. Another stopover followe ...
adUlt migrations | 71 data were biased because a ring recovery is so much more likely on a populated Brazilian beach – think Cop ...
72 | Chapter 4 before continuing south to spend the winter in the Benguela Current. On the return migration, the initial phase i ...
adUlt migrations | 73 Species such as Wandering Albatrosses where immature and adult males and females utilise different sea are ...
74 | Chapter 4 in Maria Dias’s paper,^28 I found it difficult to resist the temptation to mumble sotto voce that the birds were ...
adUlt migrations | 75 mars behind a trawler, or a gull with hours to wait before it can join the gull melee to open the next bat ...
76 | Chapter 4 the area chosen was rich in food, be it natural or fishery waste. We might bet on a prudent petrel choosing such ...
adUlt migrations | 77 daylight is spent sitting on the water.* In other words, the birds quit the South Pacific to spend their n ...
78 | Chapter 4 While activity patterns indicate and sometimes pinpoint where and when moult occurs, the most dramatic signal wou ...
adUlt migrations | 79 today’s global population numbers around 1,500 birds. One of those birds, tracked during its moulting peri ...
A Navigational Diversion Seabirds routinely make prodigious journeys across immense oceans, feats which instantly raise question ...
a navigational diversion | 81 These experiments from yesteryear suggested that the shearwaters possess some map of the world, an ...
82 | A Navigational Diversion migration direction, south, when tested under planetarium skies. By con- trast, those exposed as j ...
a navigational diversion | 83 ford, England, developed personally- stereotyped routes to the home loft. These routes were by no ...
84 | A Navigational Diversion tested from small colonies off the Tuscan coast of western Italy.^7 At the beginning of an incubat ...
CHAPTER 5 Tied to Home Adult Movements during the Breeding Season Literature would be the poorer without the opportunity to chro ...
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