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Year-round at-sea movements of fairy prions from southeastern Australia

Fromant, A, Eizenberg, YH, Poupart, T, Bustamante, P and Arnould, John 2022, Year-round at-sea movements of fairy prions from southeastern Australia, Royal Society Open Science, vol. 9, pp. 1-14, doi: 10.1098/rsos.220134.

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Title Year-round at-sea movements of fairy prions from southeastern Australia
Author(s) Fromant, A
Eizenberg, YH
Poupart, T
Bustamante, P
Arnould, JohnORCID iD for Arnould, John orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-9330
Journal name Royal Society Open Science
Volume number 9
Article ID 220134
Start page 1
End page 14
Total pages 14
Publisher The Royal Society Publishing
Place of publication London, Eng.
Publication date 2022
ISSN 2054-5703
Keyword(s) Science & Technology
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Science & Technology - Other Topics
distribution
foraging behaviour
tracking
stable isotopes
migration
Pachyptila turtur
NYCTIPHANES-AUSTRALIS
PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOMS
FOOD AVAILABILITY
FEEDING ECOLOGY
PELAGIC SEABIRD
STABLE-ISOTOPES
BASS STRAIT
CLIMATE
VARIABILITY
RESPONSES
Summary Effective conservation assessments require detailed information of species? ecological niches during the whole annual cycle. For seabirds, this implies investigating the at-sea distribution and foraging behaviour during both the breeding and non-breeding periods. However, until recently, collecting information about small species has been precluded by the excessive size of the required devices. This lack of knowledge is exacerbated in the case of polytypic genera with species sharing very similar appearance and behaviour, such as the super-Abundant prions (Pachyptila spp.). The present study investigates the year-round at-sea distribution and foraging ecology of the fairy prion (Pachyptila turtur) in southeastern Australia. Miniaturized GPS loggers during the breeding season and geolocators (GLS) during the non-breeding period were used over 4 consecutive years (2017?2021), with results that highlight the importance of the continental shelf-edge waters for fairy prions throughout the year. In addition, contrary to previous assumptions, the GLS data revealed an unsuspected postbreeding migration to the waters south of Australia, during which individuals probably undergo a rapid moult of flight feathers. Understanding the at-sea distribution and ecology of prions during the whole annual cycle will be fundamental to their conservation as it can reveal species-or populationspecific threats that have been overlooked because of their status as abundant species.
Language eng
DOI 10.1098/rsos.220134
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Free to Read? Yes
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30171791

Document type: Journal Article
Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment
School of Life and Environmental Sciences
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