Divergent foraging strategies during incubation of an unusually wide-ranging seabird, the Murphy's petrel

• Main Author: Brooke, MDL
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2019
• Subjects: activity patterns; area-restricted search; behavioural consistency; biologging; body mass; expectation maximisation binary clustering (EMbC) algorithm; gadfly petrel; seabirds; Henderson Island; Pacific
• Online Access: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288304; https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.35620

Divergent foraging strategies may emerge within a population due to a combination of physiological and environmental factors, yet in order to persist, neither strategy should offer a consistent selective advantage over the alternative in the long term. Murphy’s petrels Pterodroma ultima from Henders...