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This dataset contains information on key behavioural and physiological traits of the three focal species of seabirds: Common guillemot Uria aalge; Razorbill Alca torda; and Black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla. These data describe the daily time allocation to and energetic costs of core activities and other energetically important processes and species traits. These data are used by the spmapper() function to estimate the mass of prey taken by an individual breeding adult of each species. See Leedham et al. (2025) for full details of data sourcing.

Usage

Seabird_energetics_pars_spmapper

Format

A data frame with 25 rows and 4 variables:

parameter

Character Parameter name

Guillemot

Numeric Parameter value for Guillemot

Razorbill

Numeric Parameter value for Razorbill

Kittiwake

Numeric Parameter value for Kittiwake

Source

Published dataset: Leedham, O.; Searle, K.R.; Harris, M.P.; Newell, M.; Wanless, S.; Mobbs, D.C.; Butler, A.; Daunt, F. (2025). Time-activity budgets and energetics of common guillemot, razorbill, Atlantic puffin, and black-legged kittiwake. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/07b1105a-4a14-47e3-b491-9af59be90aff