The diet of the Antarctic Shag during summer at Nelson Island, Antarctica

• Language: unknown
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Antarctic Shag; Antarctica; Diet; Fish; Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis; Prey temporal variation; Sexual variation in foraging; Antarctic; Nelson Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00105422_v100_n1_p112_Favero; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00105422_v100_n1_p112_Favero

Analysis of 139 stomach contents of the Antarctic Shag (Phalacrocorax bransfieldensis) collected at Nelson Island, Antarctica, showed that fish were the main component in the diet, followed by octopods, gammarids, euphausiids, and polychaetes. The fish Notothenia coriiceps predominated in frequency...