Food Supply and the Consequences of Egg Size in the Thick-Billed Murre

• Published in: The Condor
• Main Authors: Hipfner, J. Mark, Gaston, Anthony J., Storey, Anne E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2001
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Arctic; Canada; Coats Island; Digges; Nunavut; thick-billed murre; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/condor/103.2.240; http://academic.oup.com/condor/article-pdf/103/2/240/29710897/condor0240.pdf

Abstract We examined the effect of egg size on post-hatching development in the Thick-billed Murre (Uria lomvia), an Arctic seabird that lays a one-egg clutch, at a colony where food availability during chick-rearing was low (Digges Island, Nunavut, Canada). We compared our results to those of a pre...