Consequences of foraging trip duration on provisioning behaviour and fledging condition of common murres Uria aalgae

• Published in: Journal of Avian Biology
• Main Authors: Davoren, Gail K., Montevecchi, William A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2003
• Subjects: Canada; Funk Island; Newfoundland; Northwest Atlantic; Uria aalge; uria
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-048x.2003.03008.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1034%2Fj.1600-048X.2003.03008.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1034/j.1600-048X.2003.03008.x

We examine the provisioning constraints of a pursuit‐diving seabird in a cold ocean regime by comparing the behaviour of common murres Uria aalge rearing chicks at two colonies in the Northwest Atlantic during 1998‐2000. Funk Island is the largest (340,000–400,000 breeding pairs) and most offshore (...