Underwater images from bird-borne cameras provide clue to poor breeding success of Shags in 2005

British Birds

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 466-470

  Watanuki, Yutaka ^a   Takahashi, Akinori ^b   Daunt, Francis ^c   Sato, Katsufumi ^d   Miyazaki, Nobuyuki ^d   Wanless, Sarah ^c  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREY CAPTURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; UNDERWATER CAMERA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FIFE; ISLE OF MAY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ALCYONACEA; ALCYONIUM DIGITATUM; AMMODYTES; ANTHOZOA; AVES; PHALACROCORAX ARISTOTELIS; PHOLIS GUNNELLUS;

EID: 34547755904     PISSN: 00070335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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