Title Efficacy and effects of diet sampling of albatross chicks
Author Phillips, R.A.
Source Emu, 106(4), p.305-308, . Publisher: Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, North Melbourne, Australia. ISSN: 0158- 4197
Publication Date 2006
Notes In English GeoRef Acc. No: 287653
Index Terms Atlantic Ocean Islands--South Georgia; Atlantic Ocean Islands; Aves; Chordata; diet; Diomedeidae; methods; physiology; Procellariiformes; risk assessment; sampling; Scotia Sea Islands; South Georgia; Tetrapoda; Thalassarche chrysostoma; Thalassarche melanophrys; Vertebrata
Abstract Evaluates efficacy and potential deleterious effects of induced regurgitation by black-browed and grey-headed albatross chicks at colonies on Bird Island, South Georgia during 2004-06 breeding seasons. Technique was both non-invasive and rapid, had no effect on subsequent survival or fledging mass, samples obtained were large, and compared with handling of adults did not entail desertion risk.
Publication Type journal article
Record ID 84773