Diet studies of seabirds: a review and recommendations

By R. T. Barrett, K. Camphuysen, T. Anker‐Nilssen, J. Chardine, Robert W. Furness, S. Garthe, O. Hüppop, Maria Leopold, W. Montevecchi, R. Veit. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Feeding ecology of yellow-legged gulls Larus michahellis in the western Mediterranean: a comparative assessment using conventional and isotopic methods (2009, methodology): “The direct sampling method of reconstructing diets suffers from several drawbacks that hamper the applicability of results (Duffy & Jackson 1986, González-Solís et al. 1997, Barrett et al. 2007).”
Sexual segregation in distribution, diet and trophic level of seabirds: insights from stable isotope analysis (2011, background): “Even if samples are obtained from adults of known sex, they reXect only the most recent meals and under-represent prey that are hard to identify or more easily digested ( Barrett et al. 2007; Votier et al. 2003).”
Sexually distinct foraging strategies in an omnivorous seabird (2015, background): “The occurrence of prey types or prey species was expressed as frequency of occurrence (%) calculated over all samples (Barrett et al. 2007); a full analysis of the diet was beyond the scope of this contribution.”
From lavage to lipids: Estimating diets of seabirds (2012, unknown): “Traditional assessment of seabird diets at colonies usually involves the identification and enumeration of prey found in stomachs, regurgitates, feces, pellets, and gular pouches, or observations of food provisioned to chicks (see Duffy & Jackson 1986, Barrett et al. 2007).”
Seasonal changes in the diet of a critically endangered seabird and the importance of trawling discards (2009, background): “Currently, the stable isotope approach can augment conventional means of dietary analysis since stable isotopes reXect time-integrated dietary records and thus eliminate some of the shortcomings of traditional dietary studies, particularly when used in combination with the stable isotope determinati”
Changes in diet and trophic position of a top predator 10 years after a mass mortality of a key prey (2010, background): “Previous studies of the diet of little penguins used flushedstomach analyses, which yield prey-species composition, but such data can be complemented with stable isotope analyses to inform on trophic interactions between predator and prey (Barrett et al., 2007; Inger and Bearhop, 2008).”
Counting with DNA in metabarcoding studies: How should we convert sequence reads to dietary data? (2018, background): “The issues we consider on how best to summarise dietary data have implications for all metabarcoding studies (Taberlet et al. 2018) and similar issues have been considered extensively in traditional diet studies (e.g. Barrett et al. 2007; Laake et al. 2002).”
Recommended best practices for plastic and litter ingestion studies in marine birds: Collection, processing, and reporting (2019, background): “Enzymes such as trypsin, papain, and collagenase (Courtene-Jones et al. 2017), and off-the-shelf mixtures such as enzymatic washing detergent (Bravo Rebolledo et al. 2013; Besseling et al. 2015) have been tested on mussels, seal scat, and cetacean intestines.”
The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges (2015, background): “…Kloser et al. (2009) and Pakhomov et al. (1996) Cephalopods Young et al. (2013) and Navarro et al. (2013) Seabirds Duffy and Jackson (1986) and Barrett et al. (2007) Marine mammals Pierce and Boyle (1991) and Pauly et al. (1998) Large predatory fishes Menard et al. (2000), Pusineri et al.…”
Causes and consequences of individual variability and specialization in foraging and migration strategies of seabirds (2017, background): “…in seabird diet across the annual cycle, particularly over different stages of the breeding period, have been studied for several decades (Barrett et al. 2007), but until the advent of suitable tracking technologies, information on year-round foraging behaviour of seabirds was scarce.”
The importance of pelagic longline fishery discards for a seabird community determined through stable isotope analysis (2010, background): “Conventional methods for dietary studies, like gut content analyses, are known to be biased by the more rapid digestion of soft-bodied prey and retention of hard prey fragments (Barrett et al., 2007).”