The potential of archival tags to provide long-term movement and behaviour data for seabirds: First results from Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans of South Georgia and the Crozet Islands

Emu

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 60-68

  Tuck, G N ^a   Polacheck, T ^a   Croxall, J P ^b   Weimerskirch, H ^c   Prince, P A ^b   Wotherspoon, S ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c Ctr d'Etud Biologiques de C   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TAGGING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS;

EID: 0033106365     PISSN: 01584197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MU99008     Document Type: Article

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