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B. P. Vieira, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, Auteur ; R. G. Nager, AuteurThe Black Skimmer Rynchops niger is a New World's coastal migratory bird with three subspecies based on distinctive morphometrics, plumage, and breeding distribution. Its population is decreasing in North America while numbers are poorly known i[...]
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Factors affecting breeding distribution of Storm-petrels Hydrobates pelagicus in Orkney and Shetland
A. De Leon, Auteur ; E. Minguez, Auteur ; P. Harvey, Auteur ; E. Meek, Auteur ; J. E. Crane, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, AuteurCapsule The main factors are past and present human activities, especially the introduction of rats to islands. Aims To assess factors that influence breeding distribution and abundance of Storm-petrel. Methods We used a database for 142 islands[...]
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S. C. Votier, Auteur ; S. Bearhop, Auteur ; N. Ratcliffe, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, Auteur
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R. W. Furness, Auteur ; G. Hilton, Auteur ; L. R. Monteiro, AuteurBehaviour of birds and radiotracking indicated that Gory's Shearwaters join rafts closest to the location of their nest site. Rafting numbers of Gory's Shearwaters per kilometre of coast were higher around Corvo than around other islands in the [...]
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G. M. Hilton, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, Auteur ; D. C. Houston, AuteurWe present data on digestive efficiencies and gut retention times of eight North Atlantic seabird species, fed on two fish species - lesser sandeel Ammodytes marinus and whiting Merlangius merlangus - which commonly occur in the diet of wild sea[...]
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R. W. G. Caldow, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, AuteurSeabirds' behavioural activity budgets have been proposed as an indicator of changes in marine food supplies. Reduced recruitment and a low biomass of sandeels Ammodytes spp. around Shetland in the late 1980s were associated with a dramatic incr[...]
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E. Kalmbach, Auteur ; R. Griffiths, Auteur ; J. E. Crane, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, AuteurWe investigated the effects of increased egg production on body condition as well as on measures of reproductive performance in great skuas, Stercorarius skua, over two subsequent years. We experimentally increased egg production from the normal[...]
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P. Catry, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, AuteurTerritorial or nest attendance by adult breeding seabirds is often essential to prevent egg or chick mortality. As a result, parent birds, when not engaged in foraging trips, should stay on their territories whenever there is a risk from leaving[...]
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P. Catry, Auteur ; N. Ratcliffe, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, AuteurWe investigated the effect of hatching date on chick body condition, chick survival, post-fledging survival and eventual breeding performance as an adult (laying date and clutch volume) of Great Skuas in Foula (Shetland). In 10 out of 16 years t[...]
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N. Ratcliffe, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, Auteur ; N. I. Klomp, AuteurThe clutch size, a-egg volume and hatching success of Great Skuas on Foula, Shetland, were examined on successive breeding attempts following recruitment. Clutch size and a-egg volume increased with breeding experience but hatching success was n[...]
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R. A. Phillips, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, AuteurEstablished pairs of Arctic Skuas Stercorarius parasiticus showed high repeatability in clutch volume (both within and between years), moderate repeatability in laying dates, but low repeatability in chick growth. Males that changed partner show[...]
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Stephen R. Baillie, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, Auteur ; J. A. Clark, Auteur ; R. E. Green, Auteur ; A. G. Gosler, Auteur ; S. J. Ormerod, Auteur ; W. J. Peach, Auteur ; D. A. Stroud, Auteur ; W. J. Sutherland, Auteur ; J. D. Wilson, Auteur1 This strategy aims to increase the contribution which ringing makes to conservation science and ornithological research, recognising that the primary outputs of the scheme are scientific publications based on data gathered by volunteer ringers[...]
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A. Kelly, Auteur ; S. Waldron, Auteur ; S. Votier, Auteur ; J. Crane, Auteur ; R. W. Furness, Auteur
