Global Circumnavigations: Tracking Year-Round Ranges of Nonbreeding Albatrosses
Abstract
Although albatrosses are paradigms of oceanic specialization, their foraging areas and migration routes when not breeding remain essentially unknown. Our continuous remote tracking of 22 adult gray-headed albatrosses for over 30 bird-years reveals three distinct strategies: (i) Stay in breeding home range; (ii) make return migrations to a specific area of the southwest Indian Ocean; and (iii) make one or more global circumnavigations (the...
Paper Details
Title
Global Circumnavigations: Tracking Year-Round Ranges of Nonbreeding Albatrosses
Published Date
Jan 14, 2005
Journal
Volume
307
Issue
5707
Pages
249 - 250
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