Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
98 | Chapter 5 Incubation duties completed, male Emperor Penguins head across the ice to open water, leaving their mates to tend ...
tied to home | 99 The annual cycle of the Emperor Penguin from laying at the start of the Antarctic winter in June to the chicks ...
100 | Chapter 5 relatively infrequent visits, fed further from the nest than adults with large chicks. I found that they did.^18 ...
tied to home | 101 Only in the 1990s was it realised that parent albatrosses and petrels feeding their chicks may alternately em ...
102 | Chapter 5 That much can be learnt by observing the coming and goings of birds at the colony. It does not illuminate whethe ...
tied to home | 103 Masked Booby, there is also a particularly striking difference in call; a bold honking by the female and a pl ...
104 | Chapter 5 Frigatebirds on the eponymous Indian Ocean island, famous for its marching crabs and notorious for its Australia ...
tied to home | 105 the beaks of the terns gathered overhead. Whichever was correct, the outcome was that many terns abandoned th ...
106 | Chapter 5 species targeting the same prey as boobies, the total number of seabirds on Ascension, around 25,000, was 50 tim ...
tied to home | 107 the colony. Compared to their elders, the immatures have less knowl- edge of prime feeding areas, but perhaps ...
108 | Chapter 5 Where the species under comparison are very different, the question of feeding segregation is meaningless. South ...
tied to home | 109 When seabirds are breeding and tied to a colony by their parental duties, how far afield they forage is clear ...
CHAPTER 6 Wind and Waves Friend and Foe Cut off from a raft, a boat, or a larger vessel, a naked human in mid- ocean is unimagin ...
wind and waves | 111 do seabirds cope, they have tricks that enable them to exploit the con- ditions they encounter at sea to sa ...
112 | Chapter 6 in the maelstrom of rain, salt spray and driving wind, and finds itself who knows where. Tales of such seabird ‘ ...
wind and waves | 113 near the Antarctic Polar Front and the outward journey is aided by a following current.^3 It is uncertain w ...
114 | Chapter 6 now gather speed as it glides downwards, perhaps roughly at right an- gles to the wind direction and therefore p ...
wind and waves | 115 is lower above the wing than below. The effect, enhanced by the cam- bered shape of the albatross wing, is ...
116 | Chapter 6 the tropical day, they make 12- hour excursions that take them up to 150 km from the colony. The birds were vari ...
wind and waves | 117 Chaucer suggested for small birds in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales? Over 600 years after Chaucer wro ...
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