PHILOPATRY IN THE COMMON GUILLEMOT URIA AALGE

Authors
HARRIS MP HALLEY DJ WANLESS S
Citation
Mp. Harris et al., PHILOPATRY IN THE COMMON GUILLEMOT URIA AALGE, Bird study, 43, 1996, pp. 134-137
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Ornithology
Journal title
Bird study → ACNP
ISSN journal
00063657
Volume
43
Year of publication
1996
Part
2
Pages
134 - 137
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-3657(1996)43:<134:PITCGU>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
Systematic ringing and subsequent resighting of 6 annual cohorts of yo ung Guillemots indicated a high degree (42%) of philopatry to the nata l group of 50-200 pairs. However, few young bred close to the sites wh ere they were reared. There was no statistically significant sex diffe rence. There seems little prospect that adjacent individuals, or even those breeding on a single ledge, are closely related.