Dietary evidence for spatial foraging segregation in sympatric albatrosses ( Diomedea spp.) rearing chicks at Iles Nuageuses, Kerguelen

• Published in: Marine Biology
• Main Authors: Cherel, Y., Weimerskirch, H., Trouvé, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; Iles Nuageuses; Kerguelen; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Patagonian Toothfish
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/53284/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/53284/1/4055.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-002-0907-5

The food of three closely related and sympatric species of mollymawks (Diomedea spp.), the black-browed (BBA, D. melanophrys), grey-headed (GHA, D. chrysostoma) and yellow-nosed (YNA, D. chlororhynchos) albatrosses, was compared at Iles Nuageuses, Kerguelen, during the chick-rearing period. BBA prey...