Foraging behaviour and habitat use by brown skuas Stercorarius lonnbergi breeding at South Georgia

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Carneiro, Ana Paula B., Manica, Andrea, Phillips, Richard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2014
• Subjects: Austral; Bird Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507329/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/507329/1/Mar_Biol_BI%20skuas_final.docx; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-014-2457-z

Top predators are critical to ecosystem function, exerting a stabilising effect on the food web. Brown skuas are opportunistic predators and scavengers. Although skuas are often the dominant land-based predator at seabird colonies, this is the first detailed study of their movements and activity dur...