Data from: Study "Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Gilchrist; East Bay Island, Canada"
Anderson CM, Gilchrist HG, Ronconi RA, Shlepr KR, Clark DE, Fifield DA, Robertson GJ, Mallory ML (2020) Both short and long distance migrants use energy-minimizing strategies in North American herring gulls. Movement Ecology. doi:10.1186/s40462-020-00207-9 : Background: Recent studies have proposed...
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ftdatacite:10.5441/001/1.1r1s4v8d 2023-05-15T15:12:34+02:00 Data from: Study "Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Gilchrist; East Bay Island, Canada" Gilchrist, H. Grant Macdonald, Christie A. Janssen, Michael H. Allard, Karel A. Anderson, Christine M. 2020 csv https://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.1r1s4v8d https://www.datarepository.movebank.org/handle/10255/move.1077 en eng Movebank Data Repository https://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.1r1s4v8d/1 https://dx.doi.org/10.5441/001/1.1r1s4v8d/2 https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00207-9 Creative Commons Universal Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 CC0 animal movement animal tracking Argos avian migration herring gull Larus argentatus migratory behavior satellite telemetry stopover dataset Dataset DataPackage 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.1r1s4v8d https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.1r1s4v8d/1 https://doi.org/10.5441/001/1.1r1s4v8d/2 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-020-00207-9 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Anderson CM, Gilchrist HG, Ronconi RA, Shlepr KR, Clark DE, Fifield DA, Robertson GJ, Mallory ML (2020) Both short and long distance migrants use energy-minimizing strategies in North American herring gulls. Movement Ecology. doi:10.1186/s40462-020-00207-9 : Background: 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. Dataset Arctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Canada East Bay ENVELOPE(-36.426,-36.426,-54.288,-54.288) |
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Anderson CM, Gilchrist HG, Ronconi RA, Shlepr KR, Clark DE, Fifield DA, Robertson GJ, Mallory ML (2020) Both short and long distance migrants use energy-minimizing strategies in North American herring gulls. Movement Ecology. doi:10.1186/s40462-020-00207-9 : Background: 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. |
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Data from: Study "Herring Gulls (Larus Argentatus); Gilchrist; East Bay Island, Canada" |
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data from: study "herring gulls (larus argentatus); gilchrist; east bay island, canada" |
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