The Breeding Ecology of Homed Puffins Fratercula comiculata in Alaska.

• Main Author: Harding, Ann Marie Aglionby
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Duck Island; Pacific; fratercula; Alaska
• Online Access: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3823/; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3823/1/3823_1384.pdf

The Horned Puffin {Fratercula corniculata) is one of three North Pacific puffin species. Horned Puffins almost always nest amongst boulders and in rock crevices. This makes access to nest-sites and chicks difficult and, as a result, sample sizes are small for many their breeding parameters. I studie...