Far From Land The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds
138 | Chapter 7 habits are those more likely to die in their early years. If this was the case, the survivors, the adults, would ...
stick or twist? | 139 example have chosen the areas according to what biologists term the ideal free distribution, akin to the c ...
140 | Chapter 7 colony show consistency of departure direction. Compared to females, males are fonder of the north- east choice, ...
stick or twist? | 141 For example, 91 Black- browed Albatrosses were studied, via GPS back- packs, during the chick- guarding ph ...
CHAPTER 8 Where Seabirds Find Food A penguin jumps into the foaming sea to gather food after a spell ashore on the Falklands, an ...
where seabirds find food | 143 do they have outward journeys with little feeding, followed by a period of feasting on plenty, fo ...
144 | Chapter 8 minimum when it is in a prime feeding region. That minimum displace- ment rate can identify feeding areas. While ...
where seabirds find food | 145 were going. This prompts the thought that there is information avail- able at a colony to help gu ...
146 | Chapter 8 presumably because shoals of the main prey, Peruvian anchovy, were extremely ephemeral. But the birds were not l ...
where seabirds find food | 147 ern Tropical Pacific, when productivity is high, flocks above tuna are dominated by boobies, with ...
148 | Chapter 8 was linear, and at 2,400 m if the final approach was zigzagging. The max- imum distance albatrosses followed odo ...
where seabirds find food | 149 might put them at risk as ice retreats in the face of global warming but, at least in the short- ...
150 | Chapter 8 shelf seas. No deeper than a few hundred metres, penetrated by life- enhancing sunlight and often nutrient rich, ...
where seabirds find food | 151 horny and tough to be digested. The beaks vary from species to species, enabling an expert like I ...
152 | Chapter 8 renewal of nutrients in the sunlit surface waters. Thanks to that renewal, planktonic growth flourishes. Small c ...
where seabirds find food | 153 feeding chicks on New Zealand’s offshore islands to fly there, a round- trip trek of 4,000 km.^12 ...
154 | Chapter 8 Talk of Fronts in the Southern Ocean perhaps provokes thoughts of an ocean barrier the size of the Great Wall of ...
where seabirds find food | 155 favoured by seabirds in many parts of the world. For example, countless thousands of Macaroni Pen ...
156 | Chapter 8 of the Equator! All these favoured areas were characterised by relatively modest sea depths, low water temperatu ...
where seabirds find food | 157 tently heading either north- east or south- east (see page 133). But in com- parison to the top t ...
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