Ecology of the Long-tailed Skua, Stercorarius longicaudus Vieillot, 1819, at Scoresby Sund, East Greenland. Part three: clutch size, laying date and incubation in relation to energy reserves

• Main Author: Korte, J. de
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1985
• Subjects: Gåseelv; Greenland; Kap; Kap Stewart; Scoresby; Scoresby Sund; Sund; Ugleelv; East Greenland; Long-tailed Skua; Stercorarius longicaudus; Tundra
• Online Access: http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/505199; http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/548856

Energy reserves, gonad development and breeding of Long-tailed Skuas were investigated in East Greenland at Kap Stewart in 1973 and 1974, at Gåseelv and Ugleelv in 1975, and at Kaerelv in 1975. In spring adults arrived along the ice edge and on the tundra with maximal energy reserves, with testes of...