Transatlantic migration by post-breeding puffins: a strategy to exploit a temporarily abundant food resource?

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Jessopp, Mark J., Cronin, Michelle, Doyle, Thomas K., Wilson, Mark, McQuatters-Gollop, Abigail, Newton, Stephen, Phillips, Richard A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2013
• Subjects: Newfoundland; Labrador Shelf; fratercula; Fratercula arctica; North Atlantic; North East Atlantic; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503688/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/503688/1/puffin_migration_Mar_biol.docx; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-013-2268-7

The distribution of Atlantic puffins (Fratercula arctica) from Skellig Michael, south-west Ireland, was investigated using geolocation loggers between the 2010 and 2011 breeding seasons. All tracked birds travelled rapidly west into the North Atlantic at the end of the breeding season in August, wit...