Glaucous Gull Predation on Dovekies: Three New Hunting Methods

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Jakubas, Dariusz, Wojczulanis-Jakubas, Katarzyna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 2010
• Subjects: glaucous gull; foraging innovation; hunting method; dovekie; goéland bourgmestre; innovation de chasse; méthode de chasse; mergule nain; Nain; Alle alle; Arctic; Dovekie; Glaucous Gull; Goéland bourgmestre; Larus hyperboreus
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/66386

We describe three previously unreported methods that hunting glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus) use to capture nesting and fledgling dovekies (Alle alle). During the nesting period, the pale-gray and white gulls camouflaged themselves by perching with head lowered on remnant snow patches in the dove...