New at-sea records of pelagic seabirds in the South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica

During ship-based seabird surveys in the south Atlantic and Antarctica in the austral summers of 1994/95, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, we documented at-sea distributions of Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri), Atlantic petrel (Pterodroma incerta), soft-plumaged petrel (Pterodroma moll...

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Published in:Polar Research
Main Authors: José Luis Orgeira, Gabriela Scioscia, Mónica Analía Torres, Natalia Andrea Dellabianca
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2013
Subjects:
Seabirds
Antarctica
South Atlantic Ocean
distribution
Environmental sciences
GE1-350
Oceanography
GC1-1581
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Austral
Drake Passage
Kerguelen
The Antarctic
Antarc*
Polar Research
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v32i0.18972
https://doaj.org/article/d03a3381183f483ab68f6e850b735bc3
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Summary:During ship-based seabird surveys in the south Atlantic and Antarctica in the austral summers of 1994/95, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, we documented at-sea distributions of Buller's albatross (Thalassarche bulleri), Atlantic petrel (Pterodroma incerta), soft-plumaged petrel (Pterodroma mollis), Kerguelen petrel (Lugensa brevirostris) and great-winged petrel (Pterodroma macroptera). In some cases, sightings were considered as extralimital, but for other species updating their distributions in the literature seems warranted. Atlantic petrel, for example, has been regularly observed in the Drake Passage and north of the Antarctic Peninsula for about 30 years, but the distribution of this species has not been updated in the literature. The observations reported here will contribute to update the at-sea distributions of these species and to changes in their distributions.

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