(Table 1) Reproductive performance of brown skua pairs with and without feeding territories at Potter Peninsula/King George Island from 1998/1999 to 2000/2001

• Main Authors: Hahn, Steffen, Peter, Hans-Ulrich
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2003
• Subjects: Biological sample; BIOS; Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi; clutch size; Eggs survived to hatching; Group; Number of fledglings per nest; Potter_Pen; Potter Peninsula; King George Island; Western Antarctica; Priority Programme 1158 Antarctic Research with Comparable Investigations in Arctic Sea Ice Areas; Sample amount; SPP1158; Standard deviation; Time coverage; Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Brown Skua; Polar Biology; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.848018; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848018

In the maritime Antarctic, brown skuas (Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi) show two foraging strategies: some pairs occupy feeding territories in penguin colonies, while others can only feed in unoccupied areas of a penguin colony without defending a feeding territory. One-third of the studied breedin...