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Western Australia Bird List EMU 063 Wilson's Storm-Petrel 187 Eastern Great Egret 143 Red-capped Plover 001 Emu 065 White-faced Storm-Petrel 186 Intermediate Egret 140 Double-banded Plover 066 Black-bellied Storm-Petrel 184 Great-billed Heron 139 Lesser Sand Plover MOUND BUILDERS 977 Cattle Egret 141 Greater Sand Plover 007 Malleefowl ALBATROSS 193 Striated Heron 142 Oriental Plover 006 Orange-footed Scrubfowl 086 Wandering Albatross 9945 Chinese Pond Heron 145 Inland Dotterel 974 Royal Albatross 190 Pied Heron 144 Black-fronted Dotterel QUAILS, PHEASANTS etc 088 Black-browed Albatross 188 White-faced Heron 138 Hooded Plover I 9939 Helmeted Guineafowl 091 Shy Albatross 185 Little Egret 132 Red-kneed Dotterel 009 Stubble Quail 090 Grey-headed Albatross 191 Eastern Reef Egret 135 Banded Lapwing 011 Brown Quail 089 Yellow-nosed Albatross 796 Black-crowned Night Heron 133 Masked Lapwing 012 King Quail 092 Sooty Albatross 192 Nankeen Night-Heron I 093 Light-mantled Sooty Albatross 178 Glossy Ibis 171 Comb-crested Jacana 903 Indian Peafowl 950 Common Pheasant I 179 Australian White Ibis 897 Pheasant-tailed Jacana PETRELS, PRIONS, SHEARWATERS 180 Straw-necked Ibis 929 Southern Giant-Petrel 181 Royal Spoonbill 170 Australian Painted Snipe WATERFOWL 199 Magpie Goose 937 Northern Giant-Petrel 182 Yellow-billed Spoonbill 168 Latham's Snipe 205 Plumed Whistling-Duck 074 Southern Fulmar 852 Pin-tailed Snipe 204 Wandering Whistling-Duck 949 Antarctic Petrel RAPTORS 169 Swinhoe's Snipe 217 Musk Duck 080 Cape Petrel 241 Eastern Osprey 152 Black-tailed Godwit 214 Freckled Duck 081 Blue Petrel 232 Black-shouldered Kite 153 Bar-tailed Godwit 198 Cape Barren Goose 082 Broad-billed Prion 233 Letter-winged Kite 151 Little Curlew 203 Black Swan 941 Salvin's Prion 230 Square-tailed Kite 150 Whimbrel I 084 Antarctic Prion 231 Black-breasted Buzzard 149 Eastern Curlew 906 Mute Swan 206 Radjah Shelduck 942 Slender-billed Prion 792 Oriental Honey-buzzard ??? Eurasian Curlew 207 Australian Shelduck 083 Fairy Prion 234 Pacific Baza 160 Terek Sandpiper 202 Australian Wood Duck 915 White-chinned Petrel 226 White-bellied Sea-Eagle 157 Common Sandpiper 213 Pink-eared Duck 073 Grey Petrel 228 Whistling Kite 155 Grey-tailed Tattler 201 Green Pygmy-goose 776 Bulwer's Petrel 227 Brahminy Kite 820 Spotted Redshank 209 Garganey 762 Jouanin’s Petrel 229 Black Kite 850 Nordmann’s Greenshank 212 Australasian Shoveler 069 Wedge-tailed Shearwater 221 Brown Goshawk 158 Common Greenshank 905 Northern Shoveler 072 Flesh-footed Shearwater 222 Collared Sparrowhawk 159 Marsh Sandpiper 211 Grey Teal 070 Sooty Shearwater 220 Grey Goshawk 891 Common Redshank 210 Chestnut Teal 071 Short-tailed Shearwater 218 Spotted Harrier 154 Wood Sandpiper 800 Northern Pintail 853 Streaked Shearwater 219 Swamp Harrier 129 Ruddy Turnstone I 068 Fluttering Shearwater 223 Red Goshawk 939 Asian Dowitcher 948 Northern Mallard 913 Hutton's Shearwater 224 Wedge-tailed Eagle 208 Pacific Black Duck 067 Little Shearwater 225 Little Eagle 165 Great Knot 215 Hardhead 920 Tahiti Petrel 164 Red Knot 216 Blue-billed Duck 935 Kerguelen Petrel 240 Nankeen Kestrel 166 Sanderling 775 Barau's Petrel 239 Brown Falcon 857 Little Stint TROPICBIRDS 921 Herald Petrel 235 Australian Hobby 162 Red-necked Stint 107 Red-tailed Tropicbird 076 Soft-plumaged Petrel 236 Grey Falcon 965 Long-toed Stint 108 White-tailed Tropicbird 077 White-headed Petrel 238 Black Falcon 849 White-rumped Sandpiper 075 Great-winged Petrel 237 Peregrine Falcon 890 Baird's Sandpiper GREBES 078 Gould's Petrel 978 Pectoral Sandpiper 061 Australasian Grebe 085 Common Diving-Petrel CRANES 163 Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 062 Hoary-headed Grebe 898 Sarus Crane 888 Dunlin 060 Great Crested Grebe PENGUINS 177 Brolga 161 Curlew Sandpiper 927 King Penguin 887 Buff-breasted Sandpiper PIGEONS, DOVES I 003 Rockhopper Penguin CRAKES, RAILS, ALLIES 167 Broad-billed Sandpiper 957 Rock Dove (Feral I Pigeon) 004 Fiordland Penguin 058 Purple Swamphen 934 Ruff 988 Laughing Dove I 959 Erect-crested Penguin 047 Chestnut Rail 932 Red-necked Phalarope 989 Spotted Dove 968 Macaroni Penguin 900 Red-legged Crake E 033 Emerald Dove 005 Little Penguin 045 Lewin's Rail BUTTON-QUAILS 034 Common Bronzewing 046 Buff-banded Rail 013 Red-backed Button-quail 035 Brush Bronzewing FRIGATEBIRDS 899 Corncrake 015 Chestnut-backed Button-quail 036 Flock Bronzewing 095 Lesser Frigatebird 050 Baillon's Crake 014 Painted Button-quail 043 Crested Pigeon 094 Great Frigatebird 049 Australian Spotted Crake 019 Red-chested Button-quail 042 Spinifex Pigeon 051 Spotless Crake 018 Little Button-quail 040 Partridge Pigeon GANNETS, BOOBYS 052 White-browed Crake 037 White-quilled Rock-Pigeon 854 Abbott's Booby 053 Pale-vented Bush-hen PRATINCOLES 031 Diamond Dove 825 Cape Gannet 055 Black-tailed Native-hen 172 Oriental Pratincole 030 Peaceful Dove 104 Australasian Gannet 056 Dusky Moorhen 173 Australian Pratincole 032 Bar-shouldered Dove 105 Masked Booby 059 Eurasian Coot 021 Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove 103 Red-footed Booby SKUAS, JAEGERS 026 Pied Imperial-Pigeon 102 Brown Booby BUSTARDS 979 South Polar Skua 176 Australian Bustard 980 Brown Skua FROGMOUTHS CORMORANTS, PELICANS 945 Pomarine Jaeger 313 Tawny Frogmouth 101 Australasian Darter SHOREBIRDS 128 Arctic Jaeger 100 Little Pied Cormorant 174 Bush Stone-curlew 933 Long-tailed Jaeger NIGHTJARS 096 Great Cormorant 175 Beach Stone-curlew 331 Spotted Nightjar 097 Little Black Cormorant NOODIES, TERNS, GULLS 317 Australian Owlet-nightjar 099 Pied Cormorant 130 Australian Pied Oystercatcher 122 Common Noddy 098 Black-faced Cormorant 131 Sooty Oystercatcher 124 Black Noddy SWIFTS 123 Lesser Noddy 882 Glossy Swiftlet HERONS, IBIS, ALLIES 146 Black-winged Stilt 972 White Tern 334 White-throated Needletail 106 Australian Pelican 147 Banded Stilt 121 Bridled Tern 335 Fork-tailed Swift 183 Black-necked Stork 148 Red-necked Avocet 120 Sooty Tern 828 House Swift 197 Australasian Bittern 117 Little Tern 195 Australian Little Bittern 137 Pacific Golden Plover 118 Fairy Tern STORM-PETRELS 907 Yellow Bittern 136 Grey Plover 111 Gull-billed Tern 812 Swinhoe's Storm-Petrel 196 Black Bittern ??? 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  • Flight Patterns and Energy Budget of the Cape Gannet

    Flight Patterns and Energy Budget of the Cape Gannet

    Energy Budget and foraging behaviour of the Cape gannet Morus capensis during the breeding season René Alfredo Navarro-Cañas BSc. Biology - MSc. Zoology Universidad Austral de Chile Thesis presented for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Zoology University of Cape Town 2010 Supervised by: Professor L.G. Underhill Co-supervised by: Dr. R.J.M. Crawford 2 Declaration I hereby declare that all of the work presented in this thesis, titled “Energy Budget and foraging behaviour of the Cape gannet, Morus capensis, during the breeding season”, is my own, except where otherwise stated in the text. This thesis has not been submitted in whole or in part for a degree at any other university. Signed in Cape Town in July 2010, René Alfredo Navarro-Cañas Date of graduation: December 16th, 2010 3 4 To Henk Visser Whose vision and enthusiasm lead to this project, it’s funding and its beginnings. I am grateful for the trust and opportunity he gave me to conduct this piece of research “Supiste que vencer o ser vencido son caras de un azar indiferente, que no hay otra virtud que ser valiente.” Did you know that to win or to be defeated are faces of an indifferent fate that there is no other virtue that being brave Jorge Luis Borges 5 6 Contents Chapter 1 General introduction 19 Chapter 2 The growth of Cape gannet chicks: intra- and inter- 31 seasonal comparisons of growth performance in relation to adults foraging effort and prey availability Chapter 3 Energy expenditure of free-ranging chicks of the 57 Cape gannet Chapter 4 Water everywhere but not a drop to drink: water flux 89 and water economy of free-ranging Cape gannets Chapter 5 A new look at track sinuosity: using distance-ratio 105 scale for the analysis of animal movement Chapter 6 Unpredictable resources and foraging strategies in 129 Cape gannets Chapter 7 Energy expenditure Cape gannets in relation to 157 foraging behaviour Chapter 8 Synthesis.