Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
86 | Chapter 5 is that, however efficient is a seabird’s flight, large amounts of time and effort will necessarily be devoted to ...
tied to home | 87 That time is often of the essence is neatly illustrated by the migrant Common Terns returning with implanted P ...
88 | Chapter 5 before laying, and this interval between peak attendance and laying var- ies surprisingly between species, from a ...
tied to home | 89 Finally there are species, for example the Short- tailed Shearwater, where the males also depart the colony at ...
90 | Chapter 5 which partly arises because females spend more time sitting on the water in darkness. Why there should be this co ...
tied to home | 91 colonies closer to, rather than further from, prime feeding areas – if this is feasible. Philip Ashmole is a s ...
92 | Chapter 5 every right to expect their husbands and partners to play a full role in tending the (monstrous) newborn. So it i ...
tied to home | 93 to her subjects, she discovered that the further the birds went from the Skomer colony during incubation and c ...
94 | Chapter 5 we can only marvel at a 45 g bird that, in the course of a 6- day off- duty spell, travels a circuit of 2,660 km ...
tied to home | 95 beachback vegetation on some of the remotest islands of the South Pa- cific around the latitude of the Tropic ...
96 | Chapter 5 the larder for the weekend, it is not obvious why they go where they go. The area targeted by the birds from Hend ...
PLATE 1. Where the Atlantic Puffins of Great Britain spent the winter after quit- ting their colonies was unknown until their re ...
PLATE 2. The Rockhopper Penguins of the Falklands can travel up to 350 km from the colony when feeding at sea while the mate ten ...
PLATE 3. The long- distance movements of Common Terns breeding in Germany can be tracked by geolocators on the bird’s legs (uppe ...
PLATE 4. Although the frigatebird’s tactic of harassing Masked Boobies and other seabirds is conspicuous to onshore birdwatchers ...
PLATE 5. Upper: A juvenile Wandering Albatross prepares to take its first flight that will be tracked via the satellite transmit ...
PLATE 6. It is not unusual for a Wandering Albatross to pass its thirtieth birthday, by which time it will have glided for milli ...
20 °6 0° 60° 40° 20° 0° –20° –40° –60° 100° 140° 180° 220° 260° Chl a (mg/m 3 ) 300° 00 .0 70 .2 0. 40 .6 1. 02 .0 5. 03 5.0 340 ...
PLATE 8. The vast majority of the world’s Laysan Albatrosses breed in the Hawaiian Islands, from where their travels have been w ...
tied to home | 97 travelling speed on these trips was close to 4 km/h, around the speed of an Olympic swimmer. Another Falklands ...
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