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The cape petrel (Daption capense) around Mawson Station, East Antarctica: new breeding localities and population counts
Cape Petrel (Daption capense) Science Article 1 abstract The cape petrel Daption capense is a widespread Southern Ocean procellarid, breeding around the Antarctic continent and on many sub-Antarctic islands (Marchant and Higgins 1990). Around Mawson, a permanently manned Australian station in East Antarctica DAVID WILSON, Notornis, 2009, Vol. 56: 162-164 Download article download full text […]
The endemic Mediterranean yelkouan shearwaterPuffinus yelkouan: distribution, threats and a pleafor more data
Yelkouan Shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) Science Article 1 abstract The endemic Mediterranean yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan, elevated to the rank of species in 2002, is poorly monitored and studied. Despite this lack of data and the susceptibility of closely related species to threats at breeding sites and foraging areas, the yelkouan shearwater is currently considered to […]
How can the Yelkouan shearwater survive feral cat predation?A meta-population structure as a solution?
Yelkouan Shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) Science Article 3 abstract The Yelkouan shearwater, Puffinus yelkouan, is an endangered Mediterranean endemic species of burrowing petrel threatened by feral cats. The life-history parameters of a small population of Yelkouan shearwaters on the Mediterranean island, Port-Cros, were studied inconjunction with the diet of feral cats, to examine the birds’ vulnerability […]
Tracking of the Yelkouan Shearwater
Yelkouan Shearwater (Puffinus yelkouan) Science Article 2 abstract Over the past six months, the EU LIFE Yelkouan Shearwater Project has been undertaking fieldwork to fitelectronic devices to the Yelkouan Shearwaters to monitor their movements at sea. The tags are the latest intechnology for seabird tracking. This is the first time that such extensive research on […]
THE PELAGIC ECOLOGY OF MANX SHEARWATERS PUFFINUS PUFFINUSOFF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) Science Article 1 abstract Knowledge of the biology of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus is largely based on dataobtained in and around breeding colonies. In this paper I provide information on various aspects of the marine ecology of this shearwater. The information presented here on age and sex ratios, masses, moult sequence […]
Influence of migratory behaviour on the morphology and breeding biology of Puffinus Shearwaters
Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) Science Article 1 abstract Ecological, life-history, breeding biology and morphologic data were collected for 18 shearwater species Puffinus spp., and the relationships between these parameters and migratory behaviour were investigated. Intraspecific variation in relative wing length was associated with differences in migratory behaviour of the Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis populations, but […]
Influence of migratory behaviour on the morphology and breeding biology of Puffinus Shearwaters
Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) Science Article 1 abstract Ecological, life-history, breeding biology and morphologic data were collected for 18 shearwater species Puffinus spp., and the relationships between these parameters and migratory behaviour were investigated. Intraspecific variation in relative wing length was associated with differences in migratory behaviour of the Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis populations, but […]
Obstruction and starvation associated with plastic ingestion in a Northern Gannet Morus bassanus and a Greater Shearwater Puffinus gravis
Greater Shearwater (Puffinus gravis) Science Article 1 abstract Plastic ingestion by seabirds is well documented (see Laist 1997for a list of species with ingestion records). However, casesdefinitively attributing seabird mortality to ingestion of plastic arerare. Seabirds that die from ingestion often suffer obstruction of thegastrointestinal tract. Ultimately, the birds die of starvation andoften quickly sink […]
Sex discrimination and measurement bias in Northern Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis from the Canadian Arctic
Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) Science Article 1 abstract The Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis is a seabird in which both sexes have similar plumage, but sexual dimorphism in body size is apparent. We used data from 63 Northern Fulmars collected at Cape Vera, Nunavut, Canada, to develop a discriminant function to predict sex that is based on […]