Great Skua (Stercorarius skua) Science Article 2 abstract The larger sex is often more vulnerable, in terms of development and survival, to poor conditions during early life. Differential vulnerability has implications for parental investment strategies such as sex ratio theory. When males are larger, it is not possible to separate the effects of larger size […]
Category: Charadriiformes
The incidence of nonbreeding by adult Great Skuas and Parasitic Jaegers from Foula, Shetland
Great Skua (Stercorarius skua) Science Article 3 abstract Several recent studies of seabirds have found high levels of nonbreeding by experienced adults. By contrast, just 8.9% (range 4-14%) of experienced Great Skuas (Catharacta skua) on Foula, Shetland Islands, deferred breeding between 1989-1996. For Parasitic Jaegers (Stercorarius parasiticus), a corresponding value of 5.5% (range 3-8%) was […]
Empirical evidence for differential organ reductions during trans-oceanic bird flight
Great Knot (Calidris tenuirostris) Science Article 1 abstract Since the early 1960s it has been held that migrating birds deposit and use only fat as fuel during migratory flight, with the non-fat portion of the body remaining homeostatic. Recent evidence from
A SUBFOSSIL GREAT AUK-PINGUINUS IMPENNIS(L.) FROM THE NETHERLANDS
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 4 abstract In the spring of 1977 a nearly complete skeleton of a Great Auk was recovered during the excavation of a Roman site at Velsen (prov. North Holland) by the Albert Egges van Giffen Institute for Pre- and Protohistory (I.P.P.) of the University of Amsterdam. The find can […]
First Record of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) from Labrador
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 2 abstract Recent archeological investigations undertaken by Bryan Mawr College and the Smithsonian institution along the Torngat Mountain coastline of northernmost Labrador have produced the first documented evidence of the extinct Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis, from the Labrador Peninsula. RICHARD H. JORDAN AND STORRS L. OLSON, Auk, Vol. 99 […]
An Attempt to Determine the Prey of the Great Auk
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 3 abstract The flightless Great Auk (?inguinus impennis), the largest of all Recent Alcidae, was exterminated in 1844 (Greenway 1958), and no one who can properly be called a naturalist ever encountered the bird inlife. As a consequence, virtually no details are known of its behavior or ecology. One […]
Observations of the Great Black-backed Gull in Bulgaria
Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) Science Article 1 abstract Until now 59 Great Black-backed Gulls have been recorded on the territory of Bulgaria, mainly during the seasonal migrations and in winter. They prefer the sea coast, seldom they visit the inland reservoirs. The first autumn migrants reach the Black Sea after September 6th. A new […]
Great Auk and Common Murre from a Florida Midden
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 6 abstract Among bird bones from archeological sites submitted for identification by Ripley P. Bullen of the Florida State Museum are the proximal portion of a right humerus of the Great Ank (Pinguinus impennis) and the proximal portion of a left humerus of the Common Murre (Uria aalFe). The […]
NOTICE OF THE REMAIN’S OF THE GREAT AUK, OR GARE-FOWL, (ALGA IMPENNIS, LINN.), FOUND IN CAITHNESS; WITH NOTES OF ITS OCCURRENCE IN SCOTLAND AND OF ITS EARLY HISTORY
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 7 abstract As one of the editors of the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Society, I prepared the list of the various donations for the meeting of the Society held in January 1867 (‘Proceedings,’ vol. vii.), and gave a rough summary of the collection of stone, bone, and metal implements,also […]
THE GREAT AUK, PINGUINUS IMPENNIS (L.) IN GREENLAND
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) Science Article 1 abstract This paper presents all available ‘archaeozoological, ethnohistorical, and historical evidence on the Great Auk, Pinguinus impennis (L.), in Greenland Substantial new contributions are: ( 1) the presentation of 132 Auk bones from seven archaeological sites, and ( 2) a translation of Otto Fabricius’s original handwritten notes on […]