...changed temporally. There was a sudden drop in distances about a week after tagging, which we interpreted as the start of the chick-phase. Then, distances increased during chick-rearing and dropped again during the post-fledging period. In the Netherlands, we don't have natural breeding... 3/6

New #OA paper in the #seabird journal (@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social)! We GPS-tracked Black-legged #Kittiwakes breeding on an offshore platform in the Dutch sector of the North Sea. In short, we show that they have a short foraging range compared to coastal... 1/6
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... in wintering areas, with birds from single breeding sites wintering in areas across the Atlantic (see movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....). We found that which and how much organochlorine contaminants are present in Arctic Skua blood depends on the wintering area. 2/2