Provisioning and growth rates of nestling Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis: stochastic variation or regulation?

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: HAMER, K. C., THOMPSON, D. R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1997
• Subjects: Fulmar; Fulmarus glacialis
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.1997.tb04501.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1474-919X.1997.tb04501.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1474-919X.1997.tb04501.x

The pattern of chick feeding in the Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis at St Kilda, Scotland, was examined by repeated weighing of chicks throughout 14 consecutive days during the first half of the chick‐rearing period in 1994. After correcting for metabolic weight losses, the sizes of positive mass incremen...