NOTES
Chapter 1. Introduction to the World’s Seabirds: Past
Knowledge and New Revelations
- While I was writing this book, a GPS study of four Herring Gulls nesting
on the roofs of St Ives buildings was published, showing how each bird had
its individual habits (see Chapter 7). Tracked over a single breeding season,
one bird ranged across the sea up to 86 km north of St Ives and one almost
as widely over the Cornish countryside, but the remaining two did not
venture far. Their maximum distances from the nest were 17 and 10 km.
Rock, P., Camphuysen, C.J., Shamoun- Baranes, J., Ross- Smith, V.H. and
Vaughan, I.P. 2016. Results from the first GPS tracking of roof- nesting
Herring Gulls Larus argentatus in the UK. Ringing & Migration 31 : 47– 62. - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mirror_of_the_Sea/Chapter_XXVI
(accessed 28 June 2017). - Species totals for different groups from http://www.birdlife.org/datazone
/home (accessed 14 June 2017). This website also provides a source of
information on Chinese Crested Tern and MacGillivray’s Petrel. - http://www.blueridgejournal.com/poems/ci-corm.htm (accessed 28 June
2017). - Newly- described species from Wikipedia and from Harrison, P., Salla-
berry, M., Gaskin, C.P., Baird, K.A. et al. 2013. A new storm- petrel species
from Chile. Auk 130 : 180– 91. - Murphy, R.C. 1922. Note on the Tubinares, including records which affect
the A.O.U. Check- List. Auk 39 : 58– 65. - Lockley, R.M. 1942. Shearwaters. London: J.M. Dent.
- Lack, D. 1968. Ecological Adaptations for Breeding in Birds. London: Methuen.