ArticleMovement ecology2020
Both short and long distance migrants use energy-minimizing migration strategies in North American herring gulls.
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- Comparing spatial differences in behavioral pattern transition of Black-tailed gull during post breeding season in the Korean peninsula.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Limited Outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Influenza A(H5N1) in Herring Gull Colony, Canada, 2022.Emerging infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Flyways and migratory behaviour of the Vega gull (Larus vegae), a little-known Arctic endemic.PloS one · 2023Article
- Influenza A viruses in gulls in landfills and freshwater habitats in Minnesota, United States.Frontiers in genetics · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent 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.
methodsWe evaluated variability in the migration strategies of Herring Gulls (
resultsOur 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.
conclusionsWhen 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.
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