Impacts of introduced Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) on least auklets (Aethia pusilla) breeding at Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands, Alaska during 2001-2003

• Main Author: Major, Heather L.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 2004
• Subjects: Kiska; Kiska Island; Norway; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/10968/; https://research.library.mun.ca/10968/1/Major_HeatherLynn.pdf

I quantified impacts of non-indigenous Norway rats on Least Auklets breeding at Kiska Island. Little direct evidence of rat predation was found in my productivity crevices, nevertheless hundreds of rat-predated Least Auklet adults, chicks and eggs were found at the auklet colony and in rat hoards. M...