Unconventional ventral attachment of time–depth recorders as a new method for investigating time budget and diving behaviour of seabirds

• Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology
• Main Authors: Tremblay, Yann, Cherel, Yves, Oremus, Marc, Tveraa, Torkild, Chastel, Olivier
• Other Authors: Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé (CEBC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), The Polar Environmental Centre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2003
• Subjects: foraging behaviour; alcid; Barents Sea; common guillemot; Uria aalge; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society; Norway; Hornøya; Northern Norway; uria
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00189793; https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.00363

12 pages International audience We tested the use of commercially available electronic time–depth recorders (TDRs) to quantify activities and thus total time budgets of seabirds. This new method involved first fitting TDRs onto the birds' bellies (not on their backs), and, secondly, analysing c...