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...
Published in: | Polar Biology |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2009
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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/ |
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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