Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Ronconi; Sable Island Canada-argos

dc.contributor.authorRonconi, Robert A.
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, Philip D.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-17T17:40:21Z
dc.date.available2020-06-17T17:40:21Z
dc.date.issued2020-06-17
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:10.5441/001/1.3264ss3v/1
dc.identifier.urihttps://datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1081
dc.relation.ispartofdoi:10.5441/001/1.3264ss3v
dc.relation.isreferencedbydoi:10.1186/s40462-020-00207-9
dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dc.subjectanimal movement
dc.subjectanimal tracking
dc.subjectavian migration
dc.subjectherring gull
dc.subjectLarus argentatus
dc.subjectmigratory behavior
dc.subjectsatellite telemetry
dc.subjectstopover
dc.titleHerring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Ronconi; Sable Island Canada-argos
dc.typeDataset
dspace.entity.typeData package
dwc.ScientificNameLarus argentatus
mdr.citation.BibTex
@misc{001/1_3264ss3v/1,
  title = {Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Ronconi; Sable Island Canada-argos},
  author = {Ronconi, RA and Taylor, PD},
  year = {2020},
  URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.3264ss3v/1},
  doi = {doi:10.5441/001/1.3264ss3v/1},
  publisher = {Movebank data repository}
}
mdr.citation.CSE
Ronconi RA, Taylor PD. 2020. Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Ronconi; Sable Island Canada-argos. Movebank Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.3264ss3v/1
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