Reproductive Energetics and Prey Harvest of Leach's Storm-Petrels in the Northwest Atlantic

• Published in: Ecology
• Main Authors: Montevecchi, William A., Birt-Friesen, V. L., Cairns, D. K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Ecological Society of America 1992
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Canada; Burrows; Meganyctiphanes norvegica; Northwest Atlantic; Oceanodroma leucorhoa; Copepods
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/1953/; https://research.library.mun.ca/1953/1/Reproductive_Energetics_and_Prey_Harvest_of_Leach_s_Storm-Petrels_in_the_Northwest_Atlantic.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/1953/3/Reproductive_Energetics_and_Prey_Harvest_of_Leach_s_Storm-Petrels_in_the_Northwest_Atlantic.pdf; https://doi.org/10.2307/1940160

Leach's Storm—Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa), the smallest and most abundant seabirds that breed in the northwest Atlantic, are not usually included in avian energetics models. To round out an energy analysis of seabirds spanning the full range of body sizes in the northwest Atlantic, the fiel...