Time-activity budgets of cape gannets (Morus Capensis) at Bird Island, Algoa Bay

• Main Author: Rishworth, Gavin Midgley
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 2014
• Subjects: Birds of prey > Behavior > South Africa > Algoa Bay; Gannets > South Africa > Algoa Bay; Birds > Breeding > South Africa > Algoa Bay; Bird Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021046; https://corycommons.ru.ac.za/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:10728

For several decades now, seabirds have been considered to be useful indicators of the state of their prey resources because of how they reflect lower-level trophic variability through proxies such as diet or behaviour. However, collection of appropriate data is often challenging in the marine enviro...