The effects of age, timing of breeding, and breeding site characteristics on the reproductive success of the thick-billed murre, Uria lomvia.

Age-specific reproductive parameters, including reproductive success, of young (four and five-year old) and older (>7 years old) breeding Thick-billed Murres (Uria lomvia) were compared on a colony at Coats Island, N.W.T. in 1990 and 1991. Young birds laid smaller eggs later in the season than ol...

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Main Author: de Forest, Leah Naoko.
Format: Thesis
Language:unknown
Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 1993
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10821
https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-17024