Older and wiser: improvements in breeding success are linked to better foraging performance in European shags

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Confusion reigns? A review of marine megafauna interactions with tidal-stream environments (2015, background): “…take several years for juvenile animals to successfully acquire appropriate foraging skills (Burger 1980, Greig et al. 1983, Guinet & Bouvier 1995, Daunt et al. 2007, Votier et al. 2011), and animals may benefit by concentrating their foraging activity in areas where resources are predictably…”
Causes and consequences of individual variability and specialization in foraging and migration strategies of seabirds (2017, background): “Older breeders may increase foraging effort to maximise chick provisioning rates, in particular when environmental conditions are poor (Daunt et al. 2007a).”
Phenological trends and trophic mismatch across multiple levels of a North Sea pelagic food web (2012, background): “Secondly, there may be trade-offs between the benefits of delaying breeding to maintain 0-group sandeel size and the fitness benefits of early breeding (Daunt et al. 2007, Harris et al. 2007).”