Does prey availability influence the foraging effort and breeding success in the Antarctic Shag Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis?

• Published in: Chinese Birds
• Main Author: Casaux, Ricardo Jorge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: China Ornithological Society
• Subjects: Antarctic Shag; Breeding Success; Foraging Effort; Prey Size; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Patagonia; South Shetland Islands; Ricardo; Py Point; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/1267

Information on diet composition, foraging effort and breeding success of the Antarctic Shag (Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis) was obtained at three colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula, during the 1997/98 breeding season. Fish was the most important prey at each of the colonies sampled, followed by oct...