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ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 9, 期 14, 页码 7914-7927出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5171
关键词
Global Positioning Systems; Hutton's Shearwater; New Zealand; Puffinus huttoni; Time-Depth Recorders
资金
- Royal Forest and Birds Protection Society of New Zealand
- University of Canterbury
- New Zealand Federation of Graduated Women
- SirTrack Ltd
- Birds New Zealand
- Brian Mason Trust
1 The Hutton's shearwater Puffinus huttoni is an endangered seabird endemic to Kaikoura, New Zealand, but the spatial and temporal aspects of its at-sea foraging behavior are not well known. 2 To identify foraging areas and estimate trip durations, we deployed Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices and Time-Depth Recorders (TDR) on 26 adult Hutton's shearwaters during the chick-rearing period in 2017 and 2018. 3 We found Hutton's shearwaters traveled much further from their breeding grounds at Kaikoura than previously considered, with most individuals foraging in coastal and oceanic areas 125-365 km south and near Banks Peninsula. Trip durations varied from 1 to 15 days (mean = 5 days), and total track lengths varied from 264 to 2,157 km (mean = 1092.9 km). 4 Although some diving occurred in near-shore waters near the breeding colony, most foraging was concentrated in four regions south of Kaikoura. Dive durations averaged 23.2 s (range 8.1 to 71.3 s) and dive depths averaged 7.1 m (range 1.5 to 30 m). Foraging locations had higher chlorophyll a levels and shallower water depths than nonforaging locations. Birds did not feed at night, but tended to raft in areas with deeper water than foraging locations. 5 Mapping the spatial and temporal distribution of Hutton's shearwaters at sea will be fundamental to their conservation, as it can reveal potential areas of overlap with fisheries and other industrial users of the marine environment.
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