As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Saturday 13 October 2012

Following a bird's life at sea


In this week's Journal of the Royal Society: Interface a team led by Oxford University scientists describes how new technologies and techniques made it possible to follow an important British seabird, the Manx Shearwater. OxSciBlog asked lead author Ben Dean of Oxford University's Department of Zoology about the study and how the team's findings might help in efforts to conserve shearwaters and other seabirds… What are the challenges of studying shearwaters? Manx Shearwaters are elusive seabirds. They visit their breeding colonies only at night and nest underground in burrows where they rear single large chicks. The rest of the time they spend foraging at sea, often travelling hundreds of kilometres in search of food.

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