Combining survey and remotely sensed environmental data to estimate the habitat associations, abundance and distribution of breeding thin-billed prions Pachyptila belcheri and Wilson’s storm-petrels Oceanites oceanicus on a South Atlantic tussac island

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Stokes, Allan W., Catry, Paulo, Matthiopoulos, Jason, Boldenow, Megan, Clark, T. J., Guest, Amy, Marengo, Ilaria, Wakefield, Ewan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2021
• Subjects: Burrowing petrel; Habitat model; Seabird; Colony; Falkland; Population; Southern Ocean; Kerguelen; Bird Island; Burrows
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/8100; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-021-02842-3

Small petrels are the most abundant seabirds in the Southern Ocean. However, because they breed in burrows on remote and often densely vegetated islands, their colony sizes and conservation status remain poorly known. To estimate the abundance of these species on Bird Island in the Falkland archipel...