Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) Science Article 11 abstract A recent taxonomic revision of wandering albatross elevated each of the four subspecies tospecies. We used mitochondrial DNA and nine microsatellite markers to study the phylogeneticrelationships of three species (Diomedea antipodensis,D. exulansandD. gibsoni) in thewandering albatross complex. A small number of samples from a fourth species,D. dabbenena,were […]
Category: Procellariiformes
Evidence for olfactory search in wandering albatross,Diomedea exulans
Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) Science Article 2 abstract Wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) forage over thousands of square kilometers of open ocean for patchily distributed live prey and carrion. These birds have large olfactory bulbs and respond to fishy-scented odors in at-sea trials, suggesting that olfaction plays a role in natural foraging behavior. With the advent […]
Orientation in the wandering albatross: interfering with magnetic perception does not affect orientation performance
Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) Science Article 16 abstract After making foraging flights of several thousands of kilometres, wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans) are able to pinpoint a specific remote island where their nests are located. This impressive navigation ability is highly precise but its nature is mysterious. Here we examined whether albatrosses rely on the perception […]
Trails of the Wandering Albatross Applying the mathematics of haphazard motion
Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) Science Article 14 abstract The wandering albatross flies extraordinary distances. Riding the wind on long, thin, rigidlyoutstretched wings, it skims the waves as it glides for hours over the ocean surface.Truly a world traveler, this seabird (Diomedea exulans) regularly circles the globe at southernlatitudes, plunging into the sea to scoop up […]
Vocal Behavior of Swinhoe’s Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma rnonorhis)
Swinhoes Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma monorhis) Science Article 1 abstract Swinhoe’s Storm-Petrel (Oceanodromma onorhis)is a nocturnal seabird related closely to Leach’s Storm-Petrel (Oceanodromale ucorhoa).S winhoe’s Storm-Petrel breeds in the northwestern Pacific Ocean on small islands around the Japan Sea or off Korea (Palmer1962, Cramp and Simmons 1977, Won and Lee 1986) MIKI TAOKA et al, Auk, Vol. […]
NORTH ATLANTIC POSSIBLE, PROBABLE AND REJECTED RECORDS OFSWINHOE’S STORM-PETREL AND EXTRALIMITAL BULWER’S PETREL
Swinhoes Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma monorhis) Science Article 2 abstract Records of Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel and extralimital records of Bulwer’s Petrel were researchedand are presented in the article
THE PELAGIC ECOLOGY OF MANX SHEARWATERS PUFFINUS PUFFINUSOFF THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus) Science Article 1 abstract Knowledge of the biology of Manx Shearwaters Puffinus puffinus is largely based on dataobtained in and around breeding colonies. In this paper I provide information on various aspects of the marine ecology of this shearwater. The information presented here on age and sex ratios, masses, moult sequence […]
Influence of migratory behaviour on the morphology and breeding biology of Puffinus Shearwaters
Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) Science Article 1 abstract Ecological, life-history, breeding biology and morphologic data were collected for 18 shearwater species Puffinus spp., and the relationships between these parameters and migratory behaviour were investigated. Intraspecific variation in relative wing length was associated with differences in migratory behaviour of the Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis populations, but […]
Influence of migratory behaviour on the morphology and breeding biology of Puffinus Shearwaters
Little Shearwater (Puffinus assimilis) Science Article 1 abstract Ecological, life-history, breeding biology and morphologic data were collected for 18 shearwater species Puffinus spp., and the relationships between these parameters and migratory behaviour were investigated. Intraspecific variation in relative wing length was associated with differences in migratory behaviour of the Little Shearwater Puffinus assimilis populations, but […]
Obstruction and starvation associated with plastic ingestion in a Northern Gannet Morus bassanus and a Greater Shearwater Puffinus gravis
Greater Shearwater (Puffinus gravis) Science Article 1 abstract Plastic ingestion by seabirds is well documented (see Laist 1997for a list of species with ingestion records). However, casesdefinitively attributing seabird mortality to ingestion of plastic arerare. Seabirds that die from ingestion often suffer obstruction of thegastrointestinal tract. Ultimately, the birds die of starvation andoften quickly sink […]