To the Antarctic or Brazil for new feathers
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 12:56
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Not only land birds, but also some seabirds, cover enormous distances during migration: the sooty shearwater, for example, circumnavigates the earth one and a half times on its travels. Despite this, relatively little is known about the migratory behaviour of seabirds as compared with that of their land-living counterparts.