How changing weather affects birds on Marion Island
Northern Giant Petrel nest next to a rock on Marion Island showing a black-bulb temperature logger and a reader used to record the body temperature of the chick that has been fitted with a PIT-tag thermometer, photograph by Avumile Bawuli; Grey-headed Albatross Ridge in midsummer on Marion Island, photograph by Chris Jones
Fitz PhD student, Chris Jones, and Avumile Bawuli, from the Fitz's Hot Birds Research Project, spoke to John Cooper, Emeritus Information Officer at ACAP about how climate change affects breeding by two surface-nesting birds on Marion Island: Grey-headed Albatrosses Thalassarche chrysostoma and giant petrels Macronectes spp.
Go to the ACAP News page to find out more about how their research will help explain the effect of changing weather on these birds:
