Decline in numbers of Antarctic skuas breeding at Potter Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica

• Main Author: Graña Grilli, Maricel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pacific Seabird Group
• Subjects: Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi; Stercorarius maccormicki; breeding success; intraspecific predation; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Austral; King George Island; Argentino; Argentina; Reinhardt; Potter Peninsula; Antarc*; Antarctic Skuas; Antarctica; antarcticus; Brown Skua; Dirección Nacional del Antártico; Instituto Antártico Argentino; Stercorarius antarcticus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/32707

The Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus lonnbergi) and the South Polar Skua (S. maccormicki) breed in Antarctica and, in the case of Brown Skua, on sub-Antarctic islands (Ritz et al. 2008). During the austral summer breeding season, they feed both on land and at sea. Their broad diet includes pengu...