First breeding record of the light-mantled sooty albatross (Phoebetria palpebrata) for the maritime Antarctic

The light-mantled sooty albatross is a medium-sized albatross with a circumpolar distribution in the Southern Ocean. The known breeding sites are restricted to Islands in sub-Antarctic latitudes close to the Antarctic convergence between 46° and 53°S. In the austral summer season 2008/2009 we discov...

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Published in:Polar Biology
Main Authors: Lisovski, Simeon, Pavel, Václav, Weidinger, Karel, Peter, Hans-Ulrich
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: 2009
Subjects:
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
The Antarctic
Austral
King George Island
South Shetland Islands
Fildes
Fildes peninsula
Antarc*
Antarctica
Polar Biology
Online Access:https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52110/
https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/52110/1/Lisovski_et_al-2009-PolBiol.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-009-0705-3
https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.ad7e5712-fd09-4d04-8cc5-08d180391bf1
https://hdl.handle.net/
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Summary:The light-mantled sooty albatross is a medium-sized albatross with a circumpolar distribution in the Southern Ocean. The known breeding sites are restricted to Islands in sub-Antarctic latitudes close to the Antarctic convergence between 46° and 53°S. In the austral summer season 2008/2009 we discovered a new breeding colony with at least two confirmed and three probable nests at Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica (62°12′S, 59°01′W). The new breeding colony of light-mantled sooty albatross described here represents the southernmost breeding place of any albatross species ever recorded.

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