How do seabirds modify their search behaviour when encountering fishing boats?

Seabirds are well known to be attracted by fishing boats to forage on offal and baits. We used recently developed loggers that record accurate GPS position and detect the presence of boats through their radar emissions to examine how albatrosses use Area Restricted Search (ARS) and if so, have speci...

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Main Authors: Alexandre Corbeau, Julien Collet, Melissa Fontenille, Henri Weimerskirch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222615