Determination of the absolute visual threshold of a nocturnal seabird, the Common Diving Petrel Pelecanoides urinatrix

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Author: BROOKE, M. DEL.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1989
• Subjects: Antarctic; Burrows; Gloom; Grubb; Payne; Antarc*; Antarctic Skuas; Antarctica; Oceanodroma leucorhoa
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1989.tb02772.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1474-919X.1989.tb02772.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1989.tb02772.x

Many of the smaller burrowing petrels are active at their colonies during the night. How they find their nesting burrows in the open terrain of an oceanic island or in the even more visually‐taxing gloom under a forest canopy (Grubb 1974 and references therein) is a feat which has long intrigued nat...