Influence of adult breeding experience on growth and provisioning of Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans chicks at South Georgia

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: BERROW, SIMON D., HUMPIDGE, RICHARD, CROXALL, JOHN P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2000
• Subjects: Austral; Bird Island; Indian; Diomedea exulans; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919x.2000.tb04859.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1474-919X.2000.tb04859.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2000.tb04859.x

For most seabirds, reproductive performance improves with age; in albatrosses this is thought not to be so (experience being acquired before starting breeding) but only one study (of chick growth in a single season at one site) has specifically addressed this. We compared the provisioning performanc...