Wettability of juvenile plumage as a major cause of mortality threatens endangered Barau's petrel

Seabirds spend most of their life at sea and have to possess a waterproof plumage to be able to sit on water for extended periods. We tracked juvenile Barau's petrels for the first time, when they leave their birth colony and found that half of the transmitters stopped soon after they first lan...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of avian biology 2019-01, Vol.50 (1), p.n/a
Hauptverfasser:	Weimerskirch, Henri, Pinet, Patrick, Dubos, Jérôme, Andres, Sylvie, Tourmetz, Julie, Caumes, Christophe, Caceres, Sarah, Riethmuller, Martin, Corre, Matthieu Le
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aquatic birds Birds Environmental Sciences Mortality Plumage plumage structure Sea surface seabird Seabirds Temperature (air-sea) tracking
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