Sentences with phrase «little auks»

Researchers have found that little auks adjust their eating habits to the available conditions.

«Our study shows that adult little auks usually go to their limit, to their caring maximum, in order to give their offspring enough to eat,» says Palme.

To analyse the mechanisms controlling familiar interactions among little auks, the researchers first implanted offspring birds, then parents with hormone - releasing pellets.

Little auks (Alle alle) breed in large colonies on rocky cliffsides in arctic regions.

For the long - lived little auks, it is more important to secure their own existence, to survive another year and to raise another offspring in the future.

The second test, however, in which the researchers implanted a hormone pellet into one of the parent birds, showed that this limit depends on the stress level of the parent bird and not on the begging behaviour of the young little auks.

They also are of interest for their long lifespan and because little auks raise only a single chick during the year, which excludes sibling rivalry as a factor in stress studies.

«The begging behaviour elicited a care response among the adult little auks.

To see how bird family members interact with each other in stressful situations, researchers from Vetmeduni Vienna and the University of Gdansk, Poland, studied parent - offspring interactions in a long - lived seabird, the little auk (Alle alle).

Roughly the size of a starling, the little auk is a seabird that feasts almost entirely on tiny zooplankton.

They title their paper, Small birds, big effects: the little auk (Alle alle) transforms high Arctic ecosystems, publishing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Not exact matches

You'd have to take care of your flight from AUK to SYD and your fees might be a little higher since your flights might not include just United, but for 120,000 miles, getting to New Zealand, Australia, and French Polynesia is superb, even if you have to shell out a little in fees.