Storm-petrels

Marine offshore Leach s storm-petrel Adult, juvenile Blood Widespread distribution, common, easily sampled at nest site, potential connection with global Hg signal... 

Marine offshore) Leach s storm-petrel THg in blood of adult and juvenile A, B... 

Leach s storm-petrel Cluster (when feasible) Annual... 

Clark, L. and Shah, P. S. (1992). Information content of prey odor plumes what do foraging Leach s storm petrels know In Chemical Signals in Verteirates vol. 6, ed. R. L. Doty and D. Miiller-Schwarze, pp. 421-427. New York Plenum. 

Mmguez, E. (1997). Olfactory nest recognition by British storm-petrel chicks. Animal... 

These seabirds have oily, waterproof feathers and a dense undercoat of insulating down. Their webbed feet help them swim, and are also used, especially by the storm petrels, to patter upon the ocean surface in search of floating bits of food. 

Fork-tailed storm petrel, Oceanodroma furcata, 514... 

Brown, R. G. B., 1988, The influence of oceanographic anomalies on the distribution of storm-petrels (Hydrobatidae) in Nova Scotia waters. Colon. Waterbirds 11 1-8. 

Blackmer, A. L., Ackerman, J. T., and Nevitt, G. A., in press. Effects of investigator disturbance on hatching success and nest-site fidelity in a long-lived seabird, the Leach s Storm-petrel, Biol. Conserv. 

Nevitt, G. A., and Haberman, K., 2003, Behavioral attraction of Leach s storm-petrels Oceanodroma leucorhoa) to dimethyl sulfide, J. Exp. Biol 206 1497-1501. 

The evidence is now strong that prey detection depends at least partly on chemical signals arising directly from the prey organisms themselves or from processes in association with them. Reports from many skilled observers of these birds behavior patterns imply such dependence (see Wenzel, 1980 for summary). Perhaps the earliest is that of Collins (1882, p. 317), who described "tolling" up storm-petrels and shearwaters by using cod livers. 

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