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.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-bird-life-sea.html#jCp
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