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Marine top predators are expected to adjust their foraging behaviour at multiple time scales concomitantly with changes in forage fish availability. Rhinoceros auklets Cerorhinca monocerata rearing chicks at Teuri Island, Japan Sea, fed on anchovy Engraulis japonicus in 2012 and 2013 (anchovy regime) but switched to sand lance Ammodytes spp in 2019 and 2020 (sand lance regime). Here, we studied their at-sea behaviour using the GPS locations of 33 birds and the depth-acceleration records of 26 birds, and compared their foraging behaviour between these prey regimes. At the trip scale, auklets used offshore waters (> 50 m sea depth) and coastal waters in the anchovy regime but used mainland coastal waters (< 50 m sea depth) in the sand lance regime. In the sand lance regime, the birds also conducted more overnight 2- to 4-day trips in 2020 and spent more time flying during 1-day trips as they fed in further areas compared to the anchovy regime. At the dive scale, auklets frequently dove to both < 5 m and 20–30 m depths in the anchovy regime but mainly to < 5 m depth in the sand lance regime. Within each dive, auklets showed a greater number of fast/strong wing stroke events in the anchovy regime than in the sand lance regime. These changes in auklet behaviour reflected the different habitats, depth distribution, and swim speed of the targeted prey species. Our study shows the behavioural flexibility of a wing-propelled flying-diving seabird in response to the inter-annual shifts in the dominant forage fish community. It also indicates the ecological constraints on the mechanisms determining nest productivity in this day-foraging/night-provisioning seabird.
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Marine Biology publishes original and internationally significant contributions from all fields of marine biology. Special emphasis is given to articles which promote the understanding of life in the sea, organism-environment interactions, interactions between organisms, and the functioning of the marine biosphere.
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