Influence of adult breeding experience on growth and provisioning of Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans chicks at South Georgia

• Published in: Ibis
• Main Authors: Berrow, Simon D., Humpidge, Richard, Croxall, John P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2008
• Subjects: Austral; Indian; Bird Island; Diomedea exulans; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/20411/; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-919X.2000.tb04859.x

For most seabirds, reproductive performance improves with age; in albatrosses this is thought not to be so (experience being acquired before starting breeding) but only one study (of chick growth in a single season at one site) has specifically addressed this. We compared the provisioning performanc...