scholarly journals Feasibility study of the development of population models for the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) and the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Hin ◽  
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Floor Soudijn ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Feasibility Study ◽  
Population Models ◽  
Northern Fulmar ◽  
Fulmarus Glacialis ◽  
Fratercula Arctica ◽  
Atlantic Puffin

scholarly journals Size variation in mid-Holocene North Atlantic Puffins indicates a dynamic response to climate change

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0246888
Author(s):  
Samuel James Walker ◽  
Hanneke Johanna Maria Meijer
Keyword(s):  
North Atlantic ◽  
Size Variation ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
Climatic Oscillations ◽  
Fratercula Arctica ◽  
Modern Breeding ◽  
Atlantic Puffin ◽  
Osteological Characters

Seabirds are one of the most at-risk groups, with many species in decline. In Scandinavia, seabirds are at a heightened risk of extinction due to accelerated global warming. Norway is home to significant portion of the European Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica) populations, but Norwegian populations have declined significantly during the last decades. In this paper we use biometric data from modern and archaeological F. arctica specimens to investigate patterns in body size variation over time of this iconic species. We aimed to set out a baseline for our archaeological comparison by firstly investigating whether modern subspecies of F. arctica are reflected in the osteological characters and are enough to distinguish subspecies from the bones alone. We then investigated if archaeological remains of F. arctica differ in size from the modern subspecies. Our results show that the subspecies Fratercula arctica naumanni was distinctly larger than the other subspecies. However, Fratercula arctica arctica and Fratercula arctica grabae were difficult to separate based on size. This generally supports ornithological observations. Post-Medieval F. arctica bones from Måsøy were similar to modern F. a. arctica populations. The mid-Holocene remains from Dollsteinhola overlaps with the modern size ranges of F. a. arctica and F. a. grabae but are generally shorter and more robust. Dollsteinhola is located close to the borders of the modern breeding ranges of both F. a. arctica and F. a. grabae. We consider it therefore likely that given the mid-Holocene climatic oscillations, breeding ranges of the two subspecies shifted north or south accordingly. However, this does not explain the different proportions of the Dollsteinhola specimens. Our data provide the first evidence for shifting distributions in ancient Atlantic Puffins and represent the first osteological analysis of Fratercula arctica subspecies.

Mechanism and Ecological Significance of Sperm Storage in the Northern Fulmar with Reference to Its Occurrence in Other Birds

The Auk ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Hatch
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Reproductive System ◽  
Sperm Storage ◽  
Egg Laying ◽  
Ecological Significance ◽  
Northern Fulmar ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Fulmarus Glacialis ◽  
Oceanodroma Leucorhoa ◽  
Horned Puffin

Abstract Sperm-storage glands were found in the uterovaginal (UV) region of the oviduct in Northern Fulmars (Fulmarus glacialis), Horned Puffins (Fratercula corniculata), and Leach's Storm-Petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) collected before or shortly after egg laying. Previously described only in domestic Galliformes, UV sperm-storage glands may prove to be a common feature of the avian reproductive system. There is as yet no compelling explanation of their function in the Horned Puffin. In the Northern Fulmar, and probably in other petrels, however, sperm-storage glands allow the separation of the male and female over pelagic waters for several weeks immediately before egg laying. The likelihood of prolonged viability of sperm in the female reproducitve tract should be considered in interpreting the sexual behavior of other wild birds.

scholarly journals Breeding status influences timing but not duration of moult in the Northern Fulmar Fulmarus glacialis

Ibis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 162 (2) ◽  
pp. 446-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Grissot ◽  
Isla M. Graham ◽  
Lucy Quinn ◽  
Vegard S. Bråthen ◽  
Paul M. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Northern Fulmar ◽  
Fulmarus Glacialis ◽  
Breeding Status

Monitoring plastic ingestion by the northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis in the North Sea

2011 ◽  
Vol 159 (10) ◽  
pp. 2609-2615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan A. van Franeker ◽  
Christine Blaize ◽  
Johannis Danielsen ◽  
Keith Fairclough ◽  
Jane Gollan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Northern Fulmar ◽  
Fulmarus Glacialis ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea

Energy Metabolism in the Locomotor Muscles of the Common Murre (Uria aalge) and the Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica)

The Auk ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 733-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Benjamin Davis ◽  
Helga Guderley
Keyword(s):  
Krebs Cycle ◽  
Columba Livia ◽  
Oxygen Storage ◽  
Uria Aalge ◽  
Common Murre ◽  
Fratercula Arctica ◽  
Metabolic Systems ◽  
Flight Muscles ◽  
The Common ◽  
Atlantic Puffin

Abstract To compare the metabolic systems that support the combination of flying and diving with those used to support burst flying and sustained flying, myoglobin concentrations and maximum enzyme activities were determined for selected enzymes of glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and amino acid metabolism in the pectoral, supracoracoideus, and sartorius muscles of the Common Murre (Uria aalge), Atlantic Puffin (Fratercula arctica), Rock Dove (Columba livia; hereafter "pigeon"), and Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus). Glycolytic enzyme levels in the flight muscles were lower in the murre and the puffin than in the pheasant, while both glycolytic and Krebs-cycle enzyme levels resembled those in the pigeon. We believe puffins and murres do not rely extensively on anaerobic glycolysis during diving. In concordance with a role in oxygen storage for diving, the levels of myoglobin in the flight muscles of murres and puffins were higher than those in pigeons or pheasants. They were lower than published values for penguins, however. In contrast to the trends for pigeon and pheasant muscles, the alcid sartorius muscles had a considerably lower aerobic orientation than the flight muscles.

Diets of northern fulmar ( Fulmarus glacialis ) chicks in the northwest Atlantic Ocean

Polar Biology ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 277-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Garthe ◽  
William A. Montevecchi ◽  
Ute Ojowski ◽  
Iain J. Stenhouse
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Northern Fulmar ◽  
Northwest Atlantic ◽  
Fulmarus Glacialis

A Brain Atlas of the Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) in Stereotaxic Coordinates (Part 2 of 2)

1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-244
Author(s):  
John A. Matochik ◽  
Carolyn N. Reems ◽  
Bernice M. Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Brain Atlas ◽  
Northern Fulmar ◽  
Fulmarus Glacialis
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