Weight loss in incubating albatrosses and its implications for their energy and food requirements

The weight loss of incubating Black-browed Albatrosses (Diomedea melanophris) and Grey-headed Albatrosses (D. chrysostoma) was measured at Bird Island, South Georgia. The rate of weight loss did not differ significantly either between the sexes or between the species. The results suggest that these...

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Published in:The Condor
Main Authors: Prince, P.A., Ricketts, C., Thomas, G.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: Oxford University Press 1981
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Online Access:http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/524748/
https://doi.org/10.2307/1367315