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Table 3 Comparison of frequencies of foraging flight ranges of GPS logger equipped great skuas breeding on Bjørnøya (this study) and on the Foula, Shetland, UK [55]

From: Flexibility of foraging strategies of the great skua Stercorarius skua breeding in the largest colony in the Barents Sea region

Breeding site

Distance from colony

< 20 km

20–40 km

60–80 km

100–120 km

max

Bjørnøya

2%

13%

15%

9%

1003 km

Shetland

~ 16%a

24%

17%

11%

219 km

  1. aas determined from Fig. 6 in [55]