Diet and breeding performance of black-legged kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla at a North Sea colony

By S. Lewis, Sarah Wanless, P. Wright, M. Harris, J. Bull, David A. Elston. 2001

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Scale‐dependent climate signals drive breeding phenology of three seabird species (2004, background): “…be related to their diet during chick rearing, while shags continue to rely primarily on adult sandeels (Harris & Wanless, 1991), kittiwakes shift to primarily juvenile sandeels (Lewis et al., 2001) and guillemots to a variable extent shift to herring and sprat Sprattus sprattus (unpublished data).”
The impact of the sandeel fishery closure on seabird food consumption, distribution, and productivity in the northwestern North Sea (2008, methodology): “Our results support previous studies that demonstrated a relationship between kittiwake breeding success and the abundance and availability of 1+ group (Rindorf et al. 2000; Frederiksen et al. 2004) and 0 group (Harris and Wanless 1997; Lewis et al. 2001 ) sandeels.”
Management implications of interactions between fisheries and sandeel-dependent seabirds and seals in the North Sea (2002, background): “Summer sandeel consumption by seabirds breeding in the Firth of Forth, south-east Scotland.”
A major increase in snake pipefish (Entelurus aequoreus) in northern European seas since 2003: potential implications for seabird breeding success (2007, background): “Uria aalge, razorbill, Alca torda and terns, Sterna spp or regurgitated food for Atlantic shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis and black-legged kittiwake, Rissa tridactyla that do not (Harris 1984; Harris and Wanless 1985; Lewis et al. 2001).”
A three-isotope approach to disentangling the diet of a generalist consumer: the yellow-legged gull in northwest Spain (2010, background): “Diet selection is important in gulls for successful breeding and recruitment, and fish often constitutes a highly preferred resource (Annett and Pierotti 1999; Lewis et al. 2001; Pedrocchi et al. 1996).”
Regional and annual variation in black-legged kittiwake breeding productivity is related to sea surface temperature (2007, background): “Although North Sea kittiwakes depend extensively on sandeels (e.g. Lewis et al. 2001), very limited data are available on kittiwake diet in West Scotland and the Irish Sea.”
Multicolony tracking reveals the winter distribution of a pelagic seabird on an ocean basin scale (2012, unknown): “It is likely that kittiwakes in winter also feed on a variety of large zooplankton, including amphipods and euphausiids Diversity and Distributions, 18, 530–542, ª 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd 537 (Mehlum & Gabrielsen, 1993; Lewis et al., 2001).”
The role of industrial fisheries and oceanographic change in the decline of North Sea black‐legged kittiwakes (2004, background): “Next spring, breeding adults again feed mainly on the same weak year class in the early part of the breeding season (sandeels older than 1 group constitute a small proportion of kittiwake diet; Lewis et al. 2001) and their poor condition leads to low reproductive investment and correspondingly low b”
Diet studies of seabirds: a review and recommendations (2007, background): “In terms of timeliness, cost-efficiency, and accuracy, data on seabird diets may therefore often prove to be valuable indicators of fish recruitment that are well-suited for incorporation in or for tuning fisheries assessment models (Barrett, 1991; Cairns, 1992; Litzow et al., 2000; Lewis et al., 20”