Foraging strategies of grey-headed albatrosses Thalassarche chrysostoma: Integration of movements, activity and feeding events

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 280, Issue , 2004, Pages 261-273

  Catry, Paulo ^a,b   Phillips, Richard A ^a   Phalan, Ben ^a   Silk, Janet R D ^a   Croxall, John P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Feeding behaviour; Jellyfish; Salp; Seabird; South Georgia; Stomach temperature

Indexed keywords

FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; SEABIRD;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; BIRD ISLAND [SOUTH GEORGIA]; SOUTH GEORGIA; WORLD;

AVES; CEPHALOPODA; CHRYSOSTOMA; CICONIIFORMES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DIOMEDEA; DIOMEDEA CHRYSOSTOMA; EUPHAUSIA; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA; GALLUS GALLUS; MARTIALIA; MARTIALIA HYADESI; SALPIDA; SCYPHOZOA; THALASSARCHE CHRYSOSTOMA;

EID: 8444222067     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps280261     Document Type: Article

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