Diet of the pintado petrel Daption capense at King George Island, Antarctica, 1990/91

Abstract

During the Dutch King George Island Expedition of 1990/91, complete stomach contents of Pintado or Cape Petrels were sampled by means of the stomach-flushing method. Food samples consisted of Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum by 60% of mass. The remainder of the mass was made up mainly of amphipods and Antarctic krill Euphausia superba. This is in contrast to previous studies of breeding pintado petrels which have reported a diet dominated by crustacean prey with a fish component of less than 30% by mass. -from Authors