Graeme A. Taylor

TL;DR: The extraordinary transequatorial postbreeding migrations of a small seabird, the sooty shearwater, obtained with miniature archival tags that log data for estimating position, dive depth, and ambient temperature reveal that shearwaters fly across the entire Pacific Ocean in a figure-eight pattern while traveling 64,037 ± 9,779 km roundtrip, the longest animal migration ever recorded electronically.

TL;DR: In this article, an appraisal of the conservation status of the post-1800 New Zealand avifauna is presented, which comprises 428 taxa in the following categories: "Extinct" 20, "Threatened" 77, "At Risk" 93, "Declining", 10 "Recovering", 17 "Relict", 48 "Naturally Uncommon", "Not Threatened" (native and resident) 36, "Coloniser" 8, "Migrant" 27, "Vagrant" 130, and "Introduced and Naturalised" 36.

TL;DR: Sooty shearwaters use these long trips to travel to distant Antarctic waters compared to remaining in local waters as mentioned in this paper, which provides evidence that the ability of birds to use two vastly different habitats provides greater flexibil- ity for maximizing resource acquisition during breeding and reduces competition near the colony.

TL;DR: This diet worked well for all species regardless of their typical natural diet (planktonic crustaceans, squid, or fish) with all species fledging above or close to mean natural fledging weights.

TL;DR: The utility of GPS tags to examine the fine-scale distribution of seabirds in relation to fishing activity is highlighted, revealing how effects of fisheries on marine megafauna may extend beyond mortality and injury as well as population numbers.