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Diving depths of albatrosses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2004

P. A. Prince
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
N. Huin
Affiliation:
British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council, High Cross, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ET, UK
H. Weimerskirch
Affiliation:
Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chize, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, F-79360, Villiers en Bois, France.

Extract

Studies of diving in seabirds have mainly been confined to penguins, alcids and cormorants. There are few data on the depths to which other seabirds dive although some species are known to have considerable abilities for diving and swimming underwater e.g. shearwaters (Kuroda 1954, Brown et al. 1978), diving petrels (Prince & Jones 1992) and gannets (Adams & Walter 1993).

Type
Short note
Copyright
© Antarctic Science Ltd 1994

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