Table 1.
A summary of the published papers returned, between November 2011–2012, when the term “seabird tracking” was entered into the search engine Web of KnowledgeTM (Thomson Reuters, USA)
| Species (scientific name) | Focus of study | Number of individuals deployed | Size of colony (pairs) | Sex of birds reported | Included range of breeding stages | Tracked in more than 1 year | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fregata magnificens | Environmental variability | 16 | 1,200 | N | N | N | De Monte et al. (2012) |
| Sula variegata | Fisheries | 26 | 172,480 | Y | N | N | Bertrand et al. (2012) |
| Morus bassunus | Sex specific foraging | 36, 42, 27 | 40,000 | Y | Y | Y | Stauss et al. (2012) |
| Morus bassunus | Renewable energy | 23 | 4,500 | N | N | N | Soanes et al. (2012) |
| Morus bassunus | Pollution risk | 64 | – | Y | Y | Y | Montevecchi et al. (2012) |
| Morus capensis | Foraging areas at two sites | 21, 25 | 32,000, 84,000 | N | N | N | Moseley et al. (2012) |
| Phalacrocorax bougainvillii and Sula variegata | Comparison between species | 20, 51 | 240,000, 41,000 | Y | N | N | Weimerskirch et al. (2012) |
| Thalassarche melanophrys | Habitat use | 49 | 74,000 | N | Y | N | Wakefield et al. (2012) |
| Calonectris diomedea | Trophic level specialisation | 23, 29 | 30,000, 850 | N | N | N | Alonso et al. (2012) |
| Puffinus mauretanicus | Breeding foraging areas | 6 | – | Y | N | N | Louzao et al. (2012) |
| Puffinus mauretanicus | Year round foraging areas | 26 | 200 | Y | N/A | N/A | Guilford et al. (2012) |
| Calonectris diomedea | Fisheries and climate change | 100 | 29,540 | N | N/A | N | Ramos et al. (2012) |
| Rissa tridactyla | Wintering areas at 18 sites | 10–16 | – | N | N/A | Y | Frederiksen et al. (2012) |
| Fratercula arctica | Renewable energy | 7 | 40,000 | N | N | N | Harris et al. (2012) |
| Alle alle | Wintering areas | 124 | 3,500,000 | N | N/A | N | Fort et al. (2012) |
| Alle alle | Breeding foraging areas | 13 | – | N | N | N | Jakubas et al. (2012) |
| Spheniscus magellanicus | Comparison of six colonies | 7–18 | 2,000–32,337 | N | N | N | Sala et al. (2012) |
| Eudyptes chrysocome | Comparison of three colonies | 22, 20,20 | 50,000–150,000 | Y | N/A | N | Thiebot et al. (2012) |
| Xema sabini | Migration | 5 | 60 | N | N/A | N | Stenhouse et al. (2012) |
| Larus atlanticus | Breeding foraging areas | (2 years) 10, 12 | 91 | N | N | Y | Suarez et al. (2012) |
| Ichthyaetus audouinii | Breeding foraging areas | 8 | 12,000 | Y | N | N | Christel et al. (2012) |
| Stercorarius skua | Foraging areas | 7,11,4 | N/A, N/A, 2170 | N | N/A | N | Magnusdottir et al. (2012) |
Colony size was reported in only half of the publications, for those which did not report colony size it was found (when available) through the Birdlife International database (www.birdlife.org/datazone)