Satellite tracking of Wandering albatrosses

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 343; no. 6260; pp. 746 - 748
• Main Authors: Jouventin, Pierre, Weimerskirch, Henri
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 22.02.1990; Nature Publishing; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal ethology; Animals; Anticyclones; Aquatic birds; Attenuation; Aves; Biological and medical sciences; Birds; Breeding; Chicks; Curvature; Diomedea exulans; Ecosystems; Feeders; Foraging behavior; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humanities and Social Sciences; Islands; letter; Low pressure; Males; Marine; Marine biology; multidisciplinary; Nesting; Power sources; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Reproductive failure; Saline water; Satellite tracking; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Seabirds; Telemetry; Transmitters; Travel; Vertebrata; Wind; Zoology; Indian Ocean; Crozet Islands; ISW; Marine environment; Antarctic Islands; Vertebrata; Kerguelen Islands; Methodology; Indian Ocean; Antarctica; Crozet Islands; Animal active movement; Aves; Telemetry; Foraging behavior

ALTHOUGH the study of seabirds in their land-based breeding colonies has attracted much attention, an understanding of their ecology at sea, particularly their foraging range and the location of their feeding zones, remains a major challenge 1 . The foraging range of pelagic feeders nesting on a giv...