THE BREEDING CYCLE OF THE SHORT‐TAILED SHEARWATER, PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS (TEMMINCK), IN RELATION TO TRANS‐EQUATORIAL MIGRATION AND ITS ENVIRONMENT

• Published in: Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
• Main Authors: MARSHALL, A. J., SERVENTY, D. L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1956
• Subjects: Arctic; Burrows; Mutton; Pacific; Puffinus tenuirostris
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1956.tb00484.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1096-3642.1956.tb00484.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1956.tb00484.x; https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1956.tb00484.x

SUMMARY The Short‐tailed Shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris , migrates annually with remarkable constancy between its southern Australian breeding islands and the north Pacific and Arctic Oceans. The regularity of its southern landfall (in late September) and egg‐laying (during the period November 19...