The importance of Paracallisoma coecus and myctophid fishes to nesting fork-tailed and Leach's storm-petrels in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia

• Published in: Journal of Plankton Research
• Main Authors: Vermeer, Kees, Devito, Kevin
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1988
• Subjects: Articles; Queen Charlotte; Hippa; Hippa Island; Petrel Island; Copepods
• Online Access: http://plankt.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/10/1/63; https://doi.org/10.1093/plankt/10.1.63

The diet of fork-tailed ( Oceanodroma furcata ) and Leach's storm-petrel ( O.leucorhoa ) was studied at Petrel Island, a small island north of Hippa Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia in 1983. The diet of the two storm-petrel species consisted mostly of the amphipod Paracal...