The diet of white-chinned petrels Procellaria aequinoctialis, Linnaeus 1758, in years of contrasting prey availability at South Georgia

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Berrow, Simon D., Croxall, John P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1999
• Subjects: Bird Island; Antarctic Science; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503019/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503019/1/download.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102099000371

The diet of breeding white-chinned petrels was studied during the summers of 1996 and 1998 at South Georgia. Krill abundance/availability was high throughout 1996 but apparently low at the beginning of the 1998 breeding season. The diet of white-chinned petrels was similar between years and consiste...