Short-tailed Shearwater (Ardenna tenuirostris) Trace Element (TE) concentrations of muscle

• Other Authors: Puskic, Peter S. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Lavers, Jennifer L. (coInvestigator), Lavers, Jennifer L. (pointOfContact), Bond, Alexander L. (coInvestigator), Bond, Alexander L. (pointOfContact), Adams, Louise R. (coInvestigator), Adams, Louise R. (pointOfContact), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies; University of Tasmania (hasAssociationWith), Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania (UTAS) (hasAssociationWith), UK Natural History Museum (hasAssociationWith)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Tasmania, Australia
• Subjects: biota; Marine Pollution; Trace Element; Plastic Pollution; Antarctica; Seabird; Shearwater; Ardenna tenurioustris; Short-tailed Shearwater; MARINE; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOSPHERE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; WETLANDS; EARTH SCIENCE | BIOSPHERE | ECOSYSTEMS | MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; TRACE ELEMENTS/TRACE METALS; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; Conservation and Biodiversity; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT; Environmental Monitoring; Dog Island; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/short-tailed-shearwater-concentrations-muscle/1449632; http://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au:/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?uuid=b5c0c15c-c16b-436e-933f-89523e4d8a8b

Trace element (TE) concentrations of juvenile Short-tailed Shearwaters collected on Great Dog Island, Tasmanian in 2017. We purchased 38 whole frozen Short-tailed Shearwater fledglings (approx. 80-90 days old) from harvesters on Great Dog Island in the Furneaux Group, Tasmania, Australia in late-April 2017. We recorded standard bird morphometric measurements (mass (± 10 g), wing chord (unflattened and straightened; ± 1 mm), culmen (± 0.1 mm mm), head + bill (± 0.1 mm)). Ingested plastic items including micro-plastic (>1 µm) and visible macro-plastic (> 5mm diameter), from the proventriculus and gizzard were categorised by type and colour.