Wire ingestion by a red-billed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus chick on San Pedro Mártir Island, Mexico

dc.contributor.author	Piña-Ortiz, Alberto
dc.contributor.author	Marcuk, Vladislav
dc.contributor.author	Gómez-Hernández, Salvador
dc.contributor.author	Castillo-Guerrero, José Alfredo
dc.contributor.author	Quillfeldt, Petra
dc.date.accessioned	2026-10-02T06:28:17Z
dc.date.issued	2025
dc.description.abstract	We report the ingestion of wire by a Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus chick at San Pedro Mártir Island, Gulf of California, Mexico. A scat sample collected from a four- to five-week-old chick contained a copper wire ~5.0 mm in length. Biologging revealed the previous foraging trips by one of the parents, and we ascertained the diet of birds in this colony through a molecular approach. From these data, we suggest why this individual was fed wire.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de/handle/jlupub/22086
dc.identifier.uri	https://doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-21429
dc.language.iso	en
dc.rights	Namensnennung 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.ddc	ddc:630
dc.title	Wire ingestion by a red-billed tropicbird Phaethon aethereus chick on San Pedro Mártir Island, Mexico
dc.type	article
local.affiliation	FB 10 - Veterinärmedizin
local.source.articlenumber	12
local.source.epage	78
local.source.journaltitle	Marine ornithology
local.source.number	1
local.source.spage	71
local.source.uri	https://doi.org/10.5038/2074-1235.53.1.1615
local.source.volume	53

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