Dual-foraging of Cory's shearwaters in the Azores: Feeding locations, behaviour at sea and implications for food provisioning of chicks

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 359, Issue , 2008, Pages 283-293

  Magalhaes M C ^a,b   Santos, R S ^b   Hamer, K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Calonectris diomedea; Geolocation; Home range; Optimal foraging; Seamounts; Wildlife telemetry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREEDING SITE; CONSPECIFIC; FEEDING GROUND; FOOD PROVISIONING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; SEABIRD; SEAMOUNT; TELEMETRY; TENNANTITE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

AVES; CALONECTRIS DIOMEDEA; PROCELLARIIDAE; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 44849125411     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07340     Document Type: Article

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