Pursuit-plunging by Northern Gannets (Sula bassana) feeding on Capelin (Mallotus villosus)

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
• Main Authors: Garthe, Stefan, Benvenuti, S., Montevecchi, W.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Royal Society of London 2000
• Subjects: Funk Island; North West Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/1713/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/1713/1/12233767.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2000.1200

Northern gannets (Sula bassana) are considered to obtain prey usually by rapid, vertical, shallow plunge dives. In order to test this contention and investigate underwater foraging behaviour, we attached two types of data–logging systems to 11 parental northern gannets at Funk Island in the North–We...