Aggregations of foraging black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) at a sea-ice edge in front of a tidewater glacier

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Øystein Varpe, Geir W. Gabrielsen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2022
• Subjects: alcidae; coastal ecology; marine-terminating glacier; cryosphere; arctic; estuarine circulation; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Arctic; Svalbard; Kronebreen; Kongsbreen; Cepphus grylle; glacier; Kongsfjord*; Kongsfjorden; Polar Research; rissa tridactyla; Sea ice; Tidewater; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.33265/polar.v41.7141; https://doaj.org/article/0bacda8783814c72a667ea3ea601eb04

Seabirds in cold biomes sometimes aggregate near glacier fronts and at sea-ice edges to forage. In this note, we report on large aggregations of black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) at the edge of sea ice in front of the tidewater glacier Kongsbreen (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard). During several days in the...