Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-5r2nc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-12T02:04:18.010Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Malaysia's Last Seabird Refuge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Nigel Langham
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The only breeding colony of the brown booby Sula leucogaster in Malaysia is declining steadily due to predation, mainly by fishermen who take eggs and young birds for food. However, if the predation could be controlled, a crop could be taken each year without endangering the colony.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , June 1979 , pp. 83 - 86
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1979

References

1.Dorward, D. F. 1962. Comparative biology of the white booby and brown booby, Sula spp. at Ascension. Ibis 103b: 174–220.Google Scholar
2.Gibson-Hill, C. A. 1949. Pulau Perak. Malay Nat. J. 5: 1–4.Google Scholar
3.Gibson-Hill, C. A. 1950. Notes on sea birds breeding in Malayan waters. Bull. Raffles Mus. 23: 5–64.Google Scholar
4.Lack, D. 1968. Ecological adaptations for breeding in birds. Methuen, London. 409pp.Google Scholar
5.Langham, N. P. E. (In press). The status of the avifauna of Pulau Perak. Fed. Mus. J. (New series).Google Scholar
6.Langham, N. P. E., Wells, D. R. and Charles, J. K. 1973. Vertebrates at Pulau Perak in March 1973. Malay. Nat. J. 26: 95–98.Google Scholar
7.Langham, N. P. E., Wells, D. R. and Charles, J. K. 1974. Further notes on the vertebrates of Pulau Perak, July 1973. Malay Nat. J. 28: 13–17.Google Scholar
8.Madoc, G. C. 1954. The birds of Pulau Perak. Malay. Nat. J. 9: 19–24.Google Scholar
9.Madoc, G. C. and Allen, F. G.. 1956. Postscript to Pulau Perak. Malay Nat. J. 10: 131–133.Google Scholar
10.Nelson, J. B. 1966. Population dynamics of the gannet, Sula bassana, at the Bass Rock, with comparative information from other Sulidae. J. Anim. Ecol. 35: 443–470.CrossRefGoogle Scholar