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MARC recordHow wandering albatrosses use weather systems to fly long distances. 2. The use of eastward-moving cold fronts from Antarctic lows to travel westwards across the Indian Ocean / M.D. Murray, D.G. Nicholls, E. Butcher, P.J. Moors.
| Title: | How wandering albatrosses use weather systems to fly long distances. 2. The use of eastward-moving cold fronts from Antarctic lows to travel westwards across the Indian Ocean / M.D. Murray, D.G. Nicholls, E. Butcher, P.J. Moors. |
| Author(s): | Murray, M. D. Nicholls, D. G. Butcher, E. Moors, P. J. |
| Date: | 2003. |
| In: | Emu. (2003.), Vol. 103(1) (2003) |
| Abstract: | Shows how two Diomedea exulans gibsoni flying between latitudes 30° S and 50° S used typical Southern Ocean winds associated with cold fronts derived from intense Antarctic lows between 50° S and 60° S to fly westwards. Most flight paths tacked across winds, with forward flight being maintained within arc of 110-170° from direction of following winds. Using south-west winds behind cold fronts birds flew to north-west and when ahead of easterly moving high used east-north-east winds to north of high to continue westerly movement. |
| Notes: | Emu. Vol. 103(1) :59-65 (2003). |
| Keywords: | 598.2 -- Birds. 598.421.2 -- Diomedeidae: Diomedea exulans gibsoni. 591.1 -- Animal physiology. 591.17 -- Animal movement and locomotion. 591.174 -- Flight. 551.5 -- Meteorology. 551.55 -- Wind and air turbulence. 551.54 -- Atmospheric pressure. H5 -- Zoology: birds. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*80) -- Southern Ocean. (*84) -- South Indian Ocean. |
| SPRI record no.: | 164386 |
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