Methods of collecting, analysing and presenting data on the diets of seabirds are reviewed,
with consideration of methods employed in diet studies of other organisms. Killing of birds …

For millenia humans have followed birds at sea to locate fish and mammals. Seabirds are
highly visible wide-ranging upper trophic level consumers that can indicate marine …

Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition is the fifth in a series of books on animal feeding and nutrition.
It fills a serious gap in the wildlife and animal nutrition literature by providing a discussion of …

This paper synthesizes the trophic dynamics of a Canadian arctic marine ecosystem in so far
as it is known, using new data on primary production, zooplankton, the bivalve Mya intricata …

In the last few years there has been an excltmg upsurge in seabird research. There are
several reasons for this. Man's increased ex ploitation of natural resources has led to a …

There is long-standing disagreement over the way in which seabird populations are
regulated1. They may be regulated by density-dependent mortality during winter as a …

I have chosen to address three major areas in the energetics of free-ranging adult seabirds:
basal metabolism, locomotion, and energy budgets. More information is available on basal …

Colonially breeding birds and mammals form some of the largest gatherings of apex
predators in the natural world and have provided model systems for studying mechanisms of …

Seabirds commonly gather into mixed-species flocks to feed on fish schools and other
concentrations of prey. We group Alaskan and Washington seabird feeding flocks into three …

Field and activity—specific metabolic rates of 20 free—living Northern Gannets (Sula
bassanus; mean mass= 3.21 kg) rearing chicks at Funk Island, Newfoundland, were …