The foraging ecology of Glausous Gulls preying on the eggs and chicks of Thick-billed Murres

• Main Author: Gilchrist, H. Grant
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 1995
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Coats Island; Greenland; Glaucous Gull; Larus hyperboreus; thick-billed murre; Upernavik; Uria lomvia; uria
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7356

The glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus) is a generalist predator with a circumpolar distribution. It commonly depredates the eggs and chicks of birds nesting in the Arctic, and often breeds in association with colonial nesting waterfowl and seabirds. The aim of this thesis was to examine how environme...