Table 3.
The diet composition (%) of male and female northern gannets in 2017 and 2018 as predicted by Bayesian mixed effects modelling, reported in table 2.
| species name | common name | 2017 |
2018 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| female (%) | male (%) | female (%) | male (%) | ||
| Ammodytes spp. | sandeels | 13.3 | 13 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
| Callionymus spp. | dragonet | 4.4 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 7.7 |
| Chelidonichthys cuculus | red gurnard | 3.8 | 4.9 | 2.2 | 3 |
| Clupea harengus | Atlantic herring | 6 | 6.9 | 2.8 | 3.4 |
| Merlangius merlangus | whiting | 6.4 | 8.3 | 1.6 | 2.2 |
| Merluccius merluccius | hake | 6 | 6.9 | 4.2 | 4.6 |
| Pleuronectes platessa | plaice | 2.5 | 3 | 2.4 | 3.3 |
| Scomber scombrus | mackerel | 37.3 | 33.9 | 68.7 | 64.4 |
| Sprattus sprattus | sprat | 15 | 12.1 | 5.8 | 4.8 |
| Trisopterus esmarkii | Norway pout | 5.1 | 5.6 | 2 | 2.2 |