Satellite tracking of Ross’s Gull Rhodostethia rosea in the Arctic Ocean.

International audience Ross’s Gull is one of the most emblematic Arctic birds and least known seabirds in the world; post-breeding movements and the use of sea-ice habitats have been long debated, but described only from scattered observations. We tracked two adults, a male and female, breeding in t...

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Published in:Journal of Ornithology
Main Authors: Gilg, Olivier, Andreev, Alexandre, Aebischer, Adrian, Kondratyev, Alexander, Sokolov, Aleksandr, Dixon, Andrew
Other Authors: Biogéosciences UMR 6282 Dijon (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Groupe de recherche en écologie arctique (GREA), Laboratory of Ornithology, Institute of Biological Problems of the North (IBPN), Ecological Research Station of Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (UB RAS), International Wildlife Consultants Ltd, Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2016
Subjects:
Satellite tracking
Post-breeding migration
Staging area
Sea-ice
Rates of travel
Ross’s Gull
Siberia
envir
anthro-se
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Kolyma
Laptev Sea
Severnaya Zemlya
Archipelago
Arctic birds
Chukotka
laptev
polar night
Sea ice
Alaska
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10336-015-1273-7
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01273634
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Summary:International audience Ross’s Gull is one of the most emblematic Arctic birds and least known seabirds in the world; post-breeding movements and the use of sea-ice habitats have been long debated, but described only from scattered observations. We tracked two adults, a male and female, breeding in the Kolyma Delta, Russia, using the lightest (<5 g) satellite transmitters currently available: the transmitters provided data for 44 and 132 days for the female and male, respectively. After departing from the breeding area and reaching the nearby Laptev Sea at the beginning of July, both birds moved NW, and the male staged until the end of September in an area of scattered sea-ice (concentration 50–100 %), NE of Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, between 80 and 85° N. By mid-October, most likely escaping the polar night, this bird reached the coast of NW Alaska, and a few days later it arrived in the coastal wetlands of North Chukotka, where it remained until the transmitter stopped in early November. 5 pages

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