Table 1 Descriptions of mammal and bird behavior codes
From: Interactions of marine mammals and birds with offshore membrane enclosures for growing algae (OMEGA)
Code | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Â | Passive | Â |
1 | Feeding | Masticating food items on or in contact with the PBR |
2 | Walking | Ambulating, crawling, hopping, hauling out (mammals) or flying across PBR (birds) |
3 | Resting | Perching (birds), sleeping, sitting, or floating motionless on top of PBR |
4 | Grooming | Preening feathers (birds), or rubbing fur (mammals) |
5 | Social behavior | Preening, beak fighting, and food parasitism (birds), or vocalization with another animal or group of animals interacting on the PBR |
| Â | Proactive | Â |
6 | Investigative, or potentially harmful | Directly pecking, biting, rolling, or investigating PBR or associated tethers and buoys |
7 | Unspecified contact, or manipulation | Swimming underneath, or unspecified behavior associated with PBR |