Parental Provisioning and Nestling Departure Decisions: A Supplementary Feeding Experiment in Tufted Puffins (Fratercula Cirrhata) on Triangle Island, British Columbia

• Published in: The Auk
• Main Author: Gjerdrum, Carina
• Other Authors: Burger, A. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2004
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Triangle Island; fratercula
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/auk/121.2.463; http://academic.oup.com/auk/article-pdf/121/2/463/29688211/auk0463.pdf

Abstract I used a supplemental feeding experiment to determine whether adult Tufted Puffins (Fratercula cirrhata) would decrease provisioning effort in response to a reduction in nestling nutritional requirements, and to investigate the relationship between parental provisioning effort and timing of...