Fig 1.
Study area map and geographic place names.
Map indicating location of study colony (black star) and place names used throughout the paper. Country boundaries from [28].
Table 1.
Total migration distance and farthest distance from breeding colony for nine Atlantic puffins breeding at a colony in northwest Greenland.
Fig 2.
Tri-monthly median locations of nine adult Atlantic puffins from northwest Greenland.
Monthly maps indicate segregation of puffins by sex during the non-breeding season with each individual bird represented by a maximum of three points per month. Locations on the Greenland Ice Sheet are a result of individuals rapidly transiting around the southern tip of Greenland from the southwest to southeast, thus resulting in a median location on the Greenland Ice Sheet. Data source for country boundaries is [28] and monthly sea ice extent data is from [55].
Fig 3.
Migratory paths of nine individual Atlantic puffins tagged in northwest Greenland.
Each color-coded month has two or three median locations (e.g., 1–10 Dec, 11–20 Dec, 21–31 Dec). Panels A–C include locations for individuals with two years of data and panels D–I have individuals with a single year of data. Locations and migratory routes on the Greenland Ice Sheet are a result of individuals rapidly transiting around the southern tip of Greenland from west to east resulting in the median location or path crossing the Greenland Ice Sheet. No data for September or March were included due to equinox periods making location identification problematic. Country boundaries from [28].
Table 2.
Mean monthly distance of male and female puffins from the breeding colony in northwest Greenland.
Fig 4.
Atlantic puffin monthly winter range and sea surface temperature.
Tri-monthly median locations of puffins from northwest Greenland and monthly puffin winter use areas from Fayet et al. [50] overlaid with 2013/14 average monthly sea surface temperatures [53]. No use area data for April/May was available from Fayet et al. [50] because puffins began returning to breeding colonies at that time, and no data for September or March for either study were available due to equinox periods. Country boundaries from [28].
Fig 5.
Puffin use of marine conservation areas.
Tri-monthly median locations of Atlantic Puffins from northwest Greenland and marine conservation areas (of varying degrees of protection) in the North Atlantic [84–88]. Country boundaries from [28].