Data from: Study "Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Fifield; Witless Bay, Canada"

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datacite.RelatedIdentifier.relatedIdentifierTypehttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00207-9
datacite.RelatedIdentifier.relationTypeMovement Ecology
dc.contributor.authorFifield, David A.
dc.contributor.authorRonconi, Robert A.
dc.contributor.authorRobertson, Gregory J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-17T13:41:08Z
dc.date.available2020-06-17T13:41:08Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-17
dc.date.submitted2020
dc.description.abstractBackground: Recent studies have proposed that birds migrating short distances migrate at an overall slower pace, minimizing energy expenditure, while birds migrating long distances minimize time spent on migration to cope with seasonal changes in environmental conditions. Methods: We evaluated variability in the migration strategies of Herring Gulls (Larus argentatus), a generalist species with flexible foraging and flight behaviour. We tracked one population of long distance migrants and three populations of short distance migrants, and compared the directness of their migration routes, their overall migration speed, their travel speed, and their use of stopovers. Results: Our research revealed that Herring Gulls breeding in the eastern Arctic migrate long distances to spend the winter in the Gulf of Mexico, traveling more than four times farther than gulls from Atlantic Canada during autumn migration. While all populations used indirect routes, the long distance migrants were the least direct. We found that regardless of the distance the population traveled, Herring Gulls migrated at a slower overall migration speed than predicted by Optimal Migration Theory, but the long distance migrants had higher speeds on travel days. While long distance migrants used more stopover days overall, relative to the distance travelled all four populations used a similar number of stopover days. Conclusions: When taken in context with other studies, we expect that the migration strategies of flexible generalist species like Herring Gulls may be more influenced by habitat and food resources than migration distance.
dc.identifier.doidoi:10.5441/001/1.27244v55
dc.identifier.urihttps://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1089
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.haspartdoi:10.5441/001/1.27244v55/1
dc.relation.haspartdoi:10.5441/001/1.27244v55/2
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1186/s40462-020-00207-9
dc.rightslicense_1*
dc.subjectLarus argentatus
dc.subjectanimal tracking
dc.subjectavian migration
dc.subjectherring gull
dc.subjectLarus argentatus
dc.subjectmigratory behavior
dc.subjectsatellite telemetry
dc.subjectstopover
dc.titleData from: Study "Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Fifield; Witless Bay, Canada"
dc.typeArticle*
dspace.entity.typeData package
dwc.ScientificNameLarus argentatus
mdr.citation.BibTex
@misc{001/1_27244v55,
  title = {Data from: Study "Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Fifield; Witless Bay, Canada"},
  author = {Fifield, DA and Ronconi, RA and Robertson, GJ},
  year = {2020},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.27244v55},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.27244v55},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
mdr.citation.CSE
Fifield DA, Ronconi RA, Robertson GJ. 2020. Data from: Study "Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Fifield; Witless Bay, Canada". Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.27244v55
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