Time Budgets of Common Murres Vary in Relation to Changes in Inshore Capelin Availability

• Published in: The Condor
• Main Authors: Sabina I. Wilhelm, Carolyn J. Walsh, Anne E. Storey
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Ornithological Society 2008
• Subjects: Canada; Funk Island; Newfoundland; Northwest Atlantic; Uria aalge; uria
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1525/cond.2008.8440

Changes in capelin (Mallotus villosus) biology since the 1990s have directly or indirectly induced variable breeding conditions for many seabirds in the Northwest Atlantic. Time budgets of the same individual Common Murres (Uria aalge) were examined in relation to annual variations in the arrival of...