Table 1.
Summary tracking statistics for all seven birds, including proportion of recorded bursts classified as soar-like, flap-like, sitting and colony-associated, and average wind speed (mean ± s.d.) encountered during the tracking period.
| ID | number of bursts | body mass before tracking (g) | tracking time (h) | total distance (km) | flap-like % |
soar-like % |
sitting % |
colony % |
wind speed (mean ± s.d.) (m s−1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 114 | 445 | 79 | 625.1 | 21.9 | 26.3 | 35.1 | 16.7 | 11.05 ± 1.6 |
| 2 | 115 | 430 | 85.8 | 483.7 | 11.3 | 9.6 | 72.2 | 6.9 | 6.54 ± 3.59 |
| 3 | 56 | 440 | 46.8 | 282.6 | 17.8 | 25.0 | 51.8 | 5.3 | 10.97 ± 2.52 |
| 4 | 33 | 470 | 25.9 | 200.8 | 21.2 | 9.1 | 48.5 | 21.2 | 1.9 ± 0.25 |
| 5 | 44 | 465 | 28.5 | 123.1 | 22.7 | 4.5 | 43.2 | 29.5 | 7.09 ± 0.15 |
| 6 | 101 | 450 | 94.9 | 700.8 | 26.7 | 2.9 | 58.4 | 11.9 | 4.82 ± 3.0 |
| 7 | 96 | 440 | 76.9 | 462.8 | 8.3 | 31.3 | 37.5 | 22.9 | 10.58 ± 1.76 |