Using digital photography to study moult extent in breeding seabirds

• Main Authors: Osborne, Alexis, Ryan, Peter G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: NISC Pty Ltd 2021
• Subjects: albatrosses; feather wear; flight feathers; giant petrels; secondary coverts; symmetry; Pétrels; Géants; Giant Petrels
• Online Access: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ostrich/article/view/217771

Scoring moult from live birds in the hand takes time, thereby increasing the handling stress to the birds. We show that digital photography can be used to efficiently study moult extent across multiple feather tracts. We photographed the upper wings of incubating albatrosses and giant petrels to inf...