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Studies in Avian Biology - Number 14

Auks At Sea

Spencer G. Sealy


1 Auks at sea: prospects for future research
Spencer G. Sealy
PATCH USE
7 The influence of hydrographic structure and prey abundance on foraging of Least Auklets
George L. Hunt, Jr., Nancy M. Harrison, and R. Ted Cooney
23 Alcid patchiness and flight direction near a colony in eastern Newfoundland
David C. Schneider, Raymond Pierotti, and William Threlfall
36 The aggregative response of Common Murres and Atlantic Puffins to schools of capelin
John F. Piatt
52 Hot spots in cold water: feeding habitat selection by Thick-billed Murres
David K. Cairns and David C. Schneider
61 Seabird diet at a front near the Pribilof Islands, Alaska
David C. Schneider, Nancy M. Harrison, and George L. Hunt, Jr.
67 Winter observations of Black Guillemots in Hudson Bay and Davis Strait
Anthony J. Gaston and Peter L. McLaren
ALLOCATION OF TIME AND ENERGY
71 Flexible time budgets in breeding Common Murres: buffers against variable prey abundance
Alan E. Burger and John F. Piatt
84 Energy expenditures, activity budgets, and prey harvest of breeding Common Murres
David K. Cairns, William A. Montevecchi, Victoria L. Birt-Friesen, and Stephen A. Macko
93 Daily foraging behavior of Marbled Murrelets
Harry R. Carter and Spencer G. Sealy
CHICK REARING AT SEA
103 Offshore distributional patterns, feeding habits, and adult-chick interactions of the Common Murre in Oregon
J. Michael Scott
109 Movements of Ancient Murrelet broods away from a colony
David C. Duncan and Anthony J. Gaston
DIETS IN RELATION TO PREY RESOURCES
114 Gelatinous zooplankton in the diet of the Parakeet Auklet: comparisons with other auklets
Nancy M. Harrison
125 The winter diet of Thick-billed Murres in coastal Newfoundland waters
Richard D. Elliot, Pierre C. Ryan, and Wayne W. Lidster
139 Physical and biological determinants of the abundance, distribution, and diet of the Common Murre in Monterey Bay, California
Donald A. Croll
AUKS IN PERIL
149 Decline of the Common Murre in Central California, 1980-1986
Jean E. Takekawa, Harry R. Carter, and Thomas E. Harvey
164 Numbers of seabirds killed or debilitated in the 1986 Apex Houston oil spill in Central California
Gary W. Page, Harry R. Carter, and R. Glenn Ford
175 Differential responses of Common and Thick-Billed Murres to a crash in the capelin stock in the southern Barents Sea
W. Vader, R. T. Barrett, K. E. Erikstad and K.-B. Strann
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