Feeding strategies and diets of breeding grey-headed and wandering albatrosses at South Georgia

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Xavier, J.C., Croxall, J.P., Trathan, P.N., Wood, A.G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer-Verlag 2003
• Subjects: Marine Sciences; Zoology; Ecology and Environment; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Bird Island; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Diomedea exulans; Euphausia superba; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/13095/

The foraging areas and diets of the grey-headed albatross Thalassarche chrysostoma and wandering albatross Diomedea exulans were studied in March/April 2000 at Bird Island, South Georgia, during their respective chick-rearing and brood-guard periods. Oceanographically, March/April 2000 was abnormal,...