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Active acoustic examination of the diving behavior of murres foraging on patchy prey

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Benoit-Bird, Kelly J., Kuletz, Kathy, Heppell, Scott, Jones, Nathan, and Hoover, Brian

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During the 2008 and 2009 breeding seasons of murres Uria spp., we combined visual observations of these predators with active acoustics (sonar), fish trawls, zooplankton net tows, and hydrographic measurements in the area surrounding breeding colonies in the southeastern Bering Sea. We acoustically detected thousands of bubble trails that were...

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murres foraging on patchy prey Kelly J. Benoit-Bird1,*, Kathy Kuletz2, Scott Heppell3, Nathan Jones4