Combining survey and remotely sensed environmental data to estimate the habitat associations, abundance and distribution of breeding thin-billed prions Pachyptila belcheri and Wilson’s storm-petrels Oceanites oceanicus on a South Atlantic tussac island

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Stokes, Allan W., Catry, Paulo, Matthiopoulos, Jason, Boldenow, Megan, Clark, T. J., Guest, Amy, Marengo, Ilaria, Wakefield, Ewan D.
• Other Authors: Natural Environment Research Council, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal, Falkland Islands Government Environmental Studies Budget
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Bird Island; Burrows; Kerguelen; Southern Ocean; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02842-3; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00300-021-02842-3.pdf; http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00300-021-02842-3/fulltext.html

Abstract Small petrels are the most abundant seabirds in the Southern Ocean. However, because they breed in burrows on remote and often densely vegetated islands, their colony sizes and conservation status remain poorly known. To estimate the abundance of these species on Bird Island in the Falkland...