Energetic Bottleneck Factors In Catastrophic Winter Seabird Losses
Friday, July 31, 2009 - 22:21
in Earth & Climate
Every winter, thousands of seabirds are washed up on shore having perished in unexplained "winter wrecks." To find out why so many seabirds die, researchers calculated the energy requirements of auks and Brünnich's guillemots and found that the birds may not be able to eat enough to survive the North Atlantic's harsh winter conditions.