Low body mass of juvenile Ross's gulls Rhodostethia rosea in the Laptev Sea
Lindström, Åke LU
; Bensch, Staffan
LU
and Jönsson, Paul Eric
(1998)
In Arctic
51(3).
p.280-282
- Abstract
- Four juvenile Ross's gulls Rhodostethia rosea were trapped on the New Siberian Islands in the Laptev Sea in early August 1994, allowing data collection on body mass and morphometrics from a poorly known part of the species' annual cycle. The wings of juvenile birds were shorter than those previously reported for adults, but their bill length and tarsus length were similar. Their average body mass (128 g) was very low, suggesting that some juvenile Ross's gulls have only very small energy reserves left after post-breeding dispersal, which in this case was at least 300 km.
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- author
- Lindström, Åke
LU
; Bensch, Staffan
LU
and Jönsson, Paul Eric
- organization
- publishing date
- 1998
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Ross's gull, Rhodostethia rosea, body mass, morphometrics, post-breeding dispersal, New Siberian Islands, Laptev Sea
- in
- Arctic
- volume
- 51
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 280 - 282
- publisher
- Arctic Institute of North America
- external identifiers
-
- scopus:0031671813
- ISSN
- 0004-0843
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- bc4f27cd-d351-428d-a519-e93f148c0d7a (old id 1747677)
- alternative location
- http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/1069/1095
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title = {{Low body mass of juvenile Ross's gulls Rhodostethia rosea in the Laptev Sea}},
url = {{http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/1069/1095}},
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