Body mass changes in Brünnich's guillemots Uria lomvia with age and breeding stage

• Published in: Journal of Avian Biology
• Main Authors: J. Gaston, Anthony, Mark Hipfner, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2006
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Canada; Coats Island; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2006.0908-8857.03426.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.2006.0908-8857.03426.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.2006.0908-8857.03426.x

Body mass of Brünnich's guillemots Uria lomvia breeding at Coats Island, Canada, was measured during incubation and chick‐rearing in 1988–2001. In most years, mass increased during incubation and fell after hatching, leveling off by the time chicks were 18 d old, close to the age at which chick...