Remote time-lapse photography as a monitoring tool for colonial breeding seabirds:A case study using thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia)

• Published in: Waterbirds
• Main Authors: Huffeldt, Nicholas Per, Merkel, Flemming Ravn
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Breeding biology; Cameras; Colony attendance; Count bias; Investigator effort; Nest attendance; Photo counts; Population monitoring; Thick-billed Murre; Uria lomvia; Greenland; Kippaku; thick-billed murre; uria
• Online Access: https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/remote-timelapse-photography-as-a-monitoring-tool-for-colonial-breeding-seabirds(8b95da3f-ab9c-47e6-a0a9-79fbca921b30).html; https://doi.org/10.1675/063.036.0310; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887398135&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Seabirds are important bio-indicators for marine ecosystem conservation. Monitoring at logistically-challenging seabird colonies takes extensive resources and expensive man-hours to complete. The use of remote time-lapse photography to collect population parameters at seabird colonies is a novel way...