Macquarie Island Brown Skua breeding and diet data

This dataset contains:

count data from a series of surveys of brown skua nest numbers and breeding success conducted from 2008/09 to 2017/18;
historic skua nest count data and concurrent estimates of rabbit abundance (1974/75 to 2009/10);
stable isotope data from feather samples taken from skua chicks during the 2017/18 season to compare stable isotope ratios between different feather types;
stable isotope data from feather samples taken from skua chicks from 2008/09 to 2017/18;
a small dataset of stable isotope data from skua prey tissue samples;
the nest locations of skuas surveyed in the seasons 2009/10, 2012/13 and 2017/18.

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Temporal extent	1974-10-01 – 2018-04-30
Date (publication)	2021-01-27
Status	completed
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	This metadata record is publicly available.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show