The diet of the Macquarie Island Cormorant Phalacrocorax atriceps purpurascens was investigated through examination of regurgitated casts. Fish remains occurred in all of 64 casts with the next major food items (either primarily ingested by the cormorants or their fish prey) being crustaceans (17.2%), gastropods (7.8%) and polychaetes (4.7%). Plant material, mainly algae, occurred in […]
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Posted: 07/09/2021ALBATROSS STUDIES – KANGAROO ISLAND, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: A COMPLETE SUMMARY 1971-1988
Posted: 07/09/2021In a previous summary, results from banding and retrap data over the years 1971-1983 for three species of albatross Diomedea spp. and two species of Giant Petrels Macronectes spp. in Kangaroo Island waters were presented, and methods of capture discussed (Lashmar 1984). The additional birds handled since then, most of which were captured in Eastern […]
Read MoreSEASONAL ABUNDANCE AND MARINE HABITAT OF STORM-PETRELS (OCEANITIDAE) OFF CENTRAL NEW SOUTH WALES
Posted: 07/09/2021During monthly oceanic cruises off central New South Wales between April 1985 and March 1987, a total of 153 storm-petrels was observed. Wilson’s Storm-Petrel Oceanites oceanicus and White-faced Storm-Petrels Pelagodroma marina comprised 70 and 25 per cent of the Oceanitidae population respectively. Only two Grey-backed Storm-Petrels Oceanites nereis and six White-bellied Fregetta grallaria and/or Black-bellied […]
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