Origin, age, sex and breeding status of wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans), northern (Macronectes halli) and southern giant petrels (Macronectes giganteus) attending demersal longliners in Falkland Islands and Scotia Ridge waters, 2001–2005

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Otley, Helen, Reid, Tim, Phillips, Richard, Wood, Andy, Phalan, Ben, Forster, Isaac
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2007
• Subjects: Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Argentina; Bird Island; Giganteus; Diomedea exulans; Giant Petrel; Giant Petrels; Macronectes giganteus; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1191/; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-006-0192-8

A total of 547 sightings of 291 banded wandering albatrosses Diomedea exulans and 21 sightings of 14 banded giant petrels Macronectes spp. were made from toothfish longliners operating on the southern Patagonian Shelf during 2001–2005. This included 25% of the wandering albatrosses with Darvic bands...