Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
118 | Chapter 6 than expected, simply because they are travelling further than the straight- line distance. Exactly this has bee ...
wind and waves | 119 them in the area where the food was encountered, potentially increasing the chance of another encounter, es ...
120 | Chapter 6 patterns is slight. That potential expands when the bird is making loops of thousands of kilometres from colony ...
wind and waves | 121 to Crozet latitudes. They necessarily face headwinds on either the out- ward or homeward journey, during wh ...
122 | Chapter 6 kilogram heavier in the 20 years, 1990 to 2010,* without any increase in the lengths of their bones. Whether the ...
wind and waves | 123 of south, crossing the Equator in the direction of Brazil, all the while hoping not to become becalmed in t ...
124 | Chapter 6 Sea Lions like to rest in this terrain, and I know from experience how easy it is to round a tussock on Kidney I ...
wind and waves | 125 nation for the near- absence of albatrosses from Equatorial regions.* Or there may be a band of westerly wi ...
126 | Chapter 6 non- breeding areas, might encounter this energy- sapping obstacle when heading south in the autumn. However the ...
wind and waves | 127 the females were the more inclined to continue feeding in worsening conditions remained unresolved. Just as ...
128 | Chapter 6 porches, back yards, pigsties, gardens, roads, turnip- fields; and are caught by foxes, dogs, opossums, raccoons ...
wind and waves | 129 eastern United States, caused over one billion dollars’ worth of damage and at least 35 human deaths. At le ...
130 | Chapter 6 at a speed of 150 km/h. Watts comments “She immediately changed course and took plan B, an escape route to Cape ...
CHAPTER 7 Stick or Twist? The Consistent Habits of Individuals Many animals are creatures of habit. Humans certainly are. Some o ...
132 | Chapter 7 This is not as stupid as it might seem. Perhaps the fact that the two trav- ellers, or indeed travellers more ge ...
stick or twist? | 133 from spatial consistency; for example a chosen area may be character- ised by warmer water than used by mo ...
134 | Chapter 7 island that, from afar, looks white. Only when nearing the island does one realise that the white coating is not ...
stick or twist? | 135 between one breeding attempt and the next. In a nutshell, the alba- trosses occupy those spare months with ...
136 | Chapter 7 Australia and arrival in the south-west Atlantic were 10 August and 13 October in 2002, and 12 August and 9 Octo ...
stick or twist? | 137 The most recent research on the Skomer Puffins has hinted that the birds that reach the Mediterranean in l ...
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