Flightless birds

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91Flightless birds / Megafauna / Procellariidae / Penguins / Pygoscelis / Antarctic fur seal / Antarctic krill / Krill / Antarctica / Zoology / Physical geography / Taxonomy

Antarctic Journal, in this issue) and rates of primary production (Holm-Hansen et al., Antarctic Journal, in this issue). The results of these calculations will provide insight into the importance of nutrient recycling i

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92Ornithology / Zoology / Cassowary / Biogeography / Queensland tropical rain forests / Frugivore / Ratite / Papua / Kiwi / Flightless birds / Birds of Australia / Casuarius

Donation to save the Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius johnsonii) after Tropical Cyclone Larry On 20 March 2006 Tropical Cyclone ”Larry” crossed the North Queensland coast at Flying Fish Point near Innisfail wi

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93Physical geography / Pygoscelis / Fauna of South America / Megafauna / Birds of Western Australia / Adélie Penguin / Weddell seal / Pinniped / Antarctica / Flightless birds / Penguins / Zoology

of Na per milliliter (tmo1 Na/mL) free water in food], regardless of the size of the chick, but the food—water content and isotopically measured mass-specific water intake rate are significantly higher in small chicks

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94Ornithology / Geography of Antarctica / Pygoscelis / Palmer Station / Foraging / Tubulin / Penguins / Flightless birds / Zoology

the MAPs of homeotherms. With respect to polymerization at cold temperatures, the major locus of adaptation appears to be the tubulin dimer. At Palmer Station we also made substantial progress in other project objectives

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95Penguins / Pygoscelis / Zoology / Birds of Australia / Megafauna / Chinstrap Penguin / Gentoo Penguin / Antarctic Peninsula / Leopard seal / Mammals of Australia / Flightless birds / Geography of Antarctica

ratory tract of skua would have to add 45.0 milligrams of water. If the bird exhaled air at body temperature, saturated, all of the water would be lost. However, by exhaling at 7°C, saturated, only 7.8 milligrams of wat

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96Zoology / Fauna of South America / Megafauna / Eared seals / Pygoscelis / Antarctic fur seal / Chinstrap Penguin / Pinniped / Fur seal / Flightless birds / Physical geography / Penguins

were chinstrap penguins and cape petrels, respectively. The largest average number of birds observed per hour was between Stations 49 and 50 (see figure 2 in Rosenberg et al., Antarctic Journal, in this issue). The major

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97Pygoscelis / Neognathae / Zoology / Birds of Australia / Seabirds / Adélie Penguin / Chinstrap Penguin / Gentoo Penguin / Krill / Flightless birds / Penguins / Ornithology

mark the end of the dietary study. During the study period, the experimental penguins were force-fed a precisely known weight of krill daily. All collected fecal material and subsamples of the krill feed were dried to co

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98Fauna of South America / Penguins / Megafauna / Pinnipeds / Antarctic fur seal / Fur seal / Chinstrap Penguin / Seabird / Macaroni Penguin / Physical geography / Flightless birds / Zoology

antarctic fulmars), however, turning frequency tended to increase with increasing hill abundance (figure 3). This finding is encouraging because it suggests that bird behavior can be used as an index of the availability

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99Birds of Western Australia / Ornithology / Birds of New Zealand / Zoology / Flightless birds / Antarctic Peninsula / Bird / Adélie Penguin / Gull / Neognathae / Seabirds / Skuas

mitochondria. Our initial experiments to approach this question are being carried out by graduate student Lisa Crockett during the 1989 Winter Cruise of RIV Polar Duke. We gratefully acknowledge the excellent support pro

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100Ornithology / Pygoscelis / Neognathae / Birds of Australia / Seabirds / Adélie Penguin / Gentoo Penguin / Chinstrap Penguin / Bird / Flightless birds / Penguins / Zoology

tive success was low this season, based on chick counts at known-sized colonies. Reports of heavy snows and continued low temperatures into the spring may have partly accounted for this. Conversely, both skua species had

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