INDEX
accelerometers, 26
Adélie Penguins: feeding behaviour of,
149; PIT (passive integrated transpon-
der) tags used to study, 27; porpoising
by, 112; rain as disaster for chicks, 127;
satellite detection of colonies, 202
African Penguins, 24, 197– 98
Ainley, David, 27
albatrosses (Diomedeidae): Atlantic
Yellow- nosed, 88; Black- browed (see
Black- browed Albatrosses); Black-
footed, 33, 39, 78; brood- guard phase
of breeding, behaviour during,
100– 101; distances traveled while
foraging from the nest, 15; feeding,
evidence of, 144; first journeys of,
33– 34; fledgling period of, 14; gliding
by, 3– 4, 113– 15, 117; Grey- headed,
56– 57, 68, 94, 111; incubation periods,
13; incubation stints of, 94; Indian
Yellow- nosed, 16, 157– 58, 189, 192;
Laysan, 78, 94, 166– 67, 185, Plate
8; Light- mantled Sooty, 15, 170;
locations of, 5; mistreatment and use
of, 4; moult by, 78; Northern Royal,
3, 150; pre- laying attendance to the
colony, gender difference in, 88;
Short- tailed, 33– 34, 78, 192, 202; Shy,
40; soaring cycle of, 114; Sooty, 40;
Wandering (see Wandering Alba-
trosses); Waved, 5, 125n; White-
capped, 192
Alderman, Rachel, 40
Amélineau, Françoise, 119
Ancient Murrelets, 32, 58
Antarctic Petrels, 108, 202
Antarctic Prions, 7, 77, 152, 161– 62,
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Antarctic Terns, 10
Arctic Terns: prayer of, 55; speed of
journeys by, 68; staging area of, 71;
stopovers used by, 69– 70; trans-
equatorial migrations of, 54– 56,
124, Map 3
area- restricted search, 118– 19, 133, 143,
157
Ascension Frigatebirds, 137, 211
Ashmole, Philip, 91
Ashmole’s halo, 91– 92, 104– 5, 159
Atlantic Puffins: capture of, 46; climate
change and, 200; fishery closures,
limited impact of, 198; light pollution