Combination of At-Sea Activity, Geolocation and Feather Stable Isotopes Documents Where and When Seabirds Molt ...

• Main Authors: Cherel, Yves, Quillfeldt, Petra, Delord, Karine, Weimerskirch, Henri, Justus Liebig University Giessen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universitätsbibliothek Gießen 2016
• Subjects: bodyfeathers; flightfeathers; inter-breedingperiod; petrels; Procellariiformes; SouthernOcean; winter; ddc570; Antarctic; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Strong Peak; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-114; https://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/169

Key facets of the foraging ecology of seabirds during the inter-breeding period still remain poorly understood because of the difficulty of studying them at sea, including during the energy-demanding molting stage. Here, the extent to which three sympatric petrels (Antarctic and thin-billed prions,...