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Diel foraging behaviour of Humboldt penguins Spheniscus humboldti at Tilgo Island, Northern Chile.

Miriam Lerma true
09-23-2021

Intro

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Diel foraging behaviour of Humboldt penguins Spheniscus humboldti at Tilgo Island, Northern Chile

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Authors

Miriam Lerma1, Camila P. Villavicencio2, Nicolas Luna3, Matías Portflitt-Toro3, Juan Serratosa3,4, Guillermo Luna-Jorquera3, Stefan Garthe1, Rene Quispe5,6

  1. Research and Technology Center (FTZ), University of Kiel, Hafentörn 1, 25761 Büsum, Germany. Link
  2. Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras 3425, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile. Link
  3. Millennium Nucleus for Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands - ESMOI, Larrondo 1281, Coquimbo, Chile. Link
  4. BirdLife International, The David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge, CB2 3QZ, UK
  5. Departamento de Biología Marina, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Larrondo 1281, Coquimbo, Chile. Link
  6. Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Pedro de Valdivia, Av. Cuatro Esquinas 60, La Serena, Chile

References

  1. De La Puente, S., Bussalleu, A., Cardeña, M., Valdés-Velásquez, A., Majluf, P. & Simeone, A. 2020. Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti). Birds of the World 269–287. Link

  2. Vianna, J. A. Cortes M., Ramos, B., Sallaberry, N., González-Acuña, D.,Dantas, G.P.M., Morgante, J., Simeone, A., Luna-Jorquera, G. Changes in abudance and distribution of Humboldt penguin Spheniscus humboldti. Mar. Ornithol. 42: 153-159. Link

  3. Dantas, G.P.M., Oliveira, L.R., Santos, A.M., Flores, M.D., De Melo, D.R., Simeone, A., González-Acuña, D., Luna-Jorquera, G., Le Bohec, C., Valdés-Velásquez, A., Cardeña, M., Morgante, J.S. & Vianna, J.A. 2019. Uncovering population structure in the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) along the Pacific coast at South America. PLoS One 14: 1–19. Link

  4. Quispe, R., Lerma, M., Serratosa, J. & Luna-Jorquera, G. 2020. Foraging ranges of Humboldt penguins Spheniscus humboldti from Tilgo Island: the critical need for protecting a unique marine habitat. Mar. Ornithol. 48: 205–208. Link

  5. Navigation route of proposed industrial project at Tilgo Island by Oceana

  6. Herling, C., Culik, B.M. & Hennicke, J.C. 2005. Diet of the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) in northern and southern Chile. Mar. Biol. 147: 13–25. Link

  7. Kaltenberg, A.M. & Benoit-Bird, K.J. 2009. Diel behavior of sardine and anchovy schools in the California Current System. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 394: 247–262. Link

  8. Taylor, J.C., Rand, P.S. & Jenkins, J. 2007. Swimming behavior of juvenile anchovies (Anchoa spp.) in an episodically hypoxic estuary: implications for individual energetics and trophic dynamics. Mar. Biol. 152: 939–957. Link

  9. Humboldt penguin call by Carlos Pinto xeno-canto

Acknowledgments

This study was financed by Fondecyt (grant no. 3170936 to RQ and postdoctorate grant no. 3160679 to CPV) and by CONACyT-INAPI (grant no. 411876 to ML).

We thank Esther Rickert for the transportation of tracking devices, and Henri Kröling for useful discussions.

This study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations and permit of the Subsecretaria de Pesca y Acuicultura de Chile (resolution N°3367/2017).