Distributional patterns of a marine bird and its prey: habitat selection based on prey and conspecific behaviour

We examined distributional patterns of a pursuit-diving seabird, the common murre Uria aalge, and its fish prey, capelin Mallotus villosus, within the avian foraging range of the largest murre colony in eastern North America: Funk Island, Newfoundland. During chick-rearing, the foraging habitat was...

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Main Authors: Davoren, Gail K., Montevecchi, William A., Anderson, John T.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Inter-Research 2003
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Online Access:https://research.library.mun.ca/540/
https://research.library.mun.ca/540/1/distributional_patterns.pdf
https://research.library.mun.ca/540/3/distributional_patterns.pdf
http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v256/p229-242/