Foraging by Seabirds on an Olfactory Landscape

By Gabrielle A Nevitt

The seemingly featureless ocean surface may present olfactory cues that help the wide-ranging petrels and albatrosses pinpoint food sources

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January-February 1999

Volume 87, Number 1
Page 46

DOI: 10.1511/1999.16.46

In February 1990, Pierre Jouventin and Henri Weimerskirch of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Beauvois, France, reported the first successful tracking of a seabird with satellite telemetry.

Photograph courtesy of Graham Robertson, Australian Antarctic Division.

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