Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies

Jelena Kralj; Aurore Ponchon; Daniel Oro; Barbara Amadesi; Juan Arizaga; Nicola Baccetti; Thierry Boulinier; Jacopo G. Cecere; Anna-marie Corman; Leonie Enners; Abram Fleishman; Stefan Garthe; David Grémillet; Ann Harding; José Manuel Igual; Luka Jurinović; Ulrike Kubetzki; Donald E. Lyons; Rachael Orben; Rosana Paredes; Simone Pirrello; Bernard Recorbet; Scott Shaffer; Philipp Schwemmer; Lorenzo Serra; Anouk Spelt; Giacomo Tavecchia; Jill Tengeres; Davorin Tome; Cara Williamson; Shane Windsor; Hillary Young; Marco Zenatello; Ruben Fijn

doi:10.1007/s00442-023-05331-y

Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies

Jelena Kralj^*
, Aurore Ponchon
, Daniel Oro
, Barbara Amadesi
, Juan Arizaga
, Nicola Baccetti
, Thierry Boulinier
, Jacopo G. Cecere
, Anna-marie Corman
, Leonie Enners
, Abram Fleishman
, Stefan Garthe
, David Grémillet
, Ann Harding
, José Manuel Igual
, Luka Jurinović
, Ulrike Kubetzki
, Donald E. Lyons
, Rachael Orben
, Rosana Paredes

Simone Pirrello, Bernard Recorbet, Scott Shaffer, Philipp Schwemmer, Lorenzo Serra, Anouk Spelt, Giacomo Tavecchia, Jill Tengeres, Davorin Tome, Cara Williamson, Shane Windsor, Hillary Young, Marco Zenatello, Ruben Fijn

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Compared to other animal movements, prospecting by adult individuals for a future breeding site is commonly overlooked. Prospecting influences the decision of where to breed and has consequences on fitness and lifetime reproductive success. By analysing movements of 31 satellite- and GPS-tracked gull and tern populations belonging to 14 species in Europe and North America, we examined the occurrence and factors explaining prospecting by actively breeding birds. Prospecting in active breeders occurred in 85.7% of studied species, across 61.3% of sampled populations. Prospecting was more common in populations with frequent inter-annual changes of breeding sites and among females. These results contradict theoretical models which predict that prospecting is expected to evolve in relatively predictable and stable environments. More long-term tracking studies are needed to identify factors affecting patterns of prospecting in different environments and understand the consequences of prospecting on fitness at the individual and population level.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	341-354
Number of pages	14
Journal	Oecologia
Volume	201
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05331-y
Publication status	Published - 6 Feb 2023

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Funding Information:
The study on black-legged kittiwakes in Norway was funded by the French Polar Institute (IPEV, programme no. 333 PARASITOARCTIQUE and OSU-OREME) and in France by Eoliennes Offshores du Calvados, Eoliennes Offshores des Hautes Falaises and the French Agency for Marine Protected Areas. Tracking of black-legged and red-legged kittiwakes in Alaska was supported by the North Pacific Research Board. The studies on Mediterranean gulls and gull-billed terns in Italy were funded by agreements between ISPRA and the Italian Ministry for the Ecological Transition (MiTE), formerly Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection (MATTM); Decreti Min. Prot. 0004799-04/03/2016 and Prot. 34751-30/12/2019. The study of Audouin's gull in Spain was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, AEI/FEDER and UE (grants re. CGL2016-80963-R and CGL2017-85210-P), Project LIFE + INDEMARES (2009–2014; LIFE07NAT/E/000732), and was conducted by SEO/BirdLife. The study of Audouin's gull in Corse was founded by French Ministry of the Environment and CEN de Corse and in Italy by the Arcipelago Toscano National Park (‘The BIG FIVE’ project), under the LIFE project ‘Resto con Life’ (LIFE13 NAT/IT/0000471) and by ISPRA. Tagging of Audouin's and yellow-legged gulls in Croatia was funded under LIFE Artina project (LIFE17 NAT/HR/000594). Tracking of western gulls in Oregon was funded by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management M14AC00026 and in California by several sources including SJSU RSCA and CSU COAST. Funds to monitor yellow-legged gull movements in the Balearic Islands were provided by Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and the EU found for regional development (FEDER), project n. CGL2017-85210-P. The survey of the yellow-legged gull in the province of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain) was funded by the Gipuzkoa Deputation. Tracking of gulls in Germany was funded mainly by the projects WINDBIRD (Grant no. 0325281, German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy according to a decision of the German Bundestag), STopP (grant no. 03F672B, German Federal Ministry of Research and Education), and BIRDMOVE and TRACKBIRD (Grant nos. 3515822100 and 3519861400), Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, with funds from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. The study on lesser black-backed gulls in Bristol, United Kingdom, was funded by European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant number 679355), the University Research Committee (URC)/Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) Interdisciplinary Research Internship Scheme (IRIS) 2018, and the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Autonomous and Robotic Systems (FARSCOPE) at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory. Tagging of common terns in Croatia and Slovenia was founded by the Cooperation Programme Interreg V-A Slovenia – Croatia (Grant SLO-HR347). Tracking sandwich terns in the Netherlands was part of PMR-NCV, a program to study the effects of the extension of Rotterdam Harbour, and WOZEP, a program to study the effects of offshore wind farm developments in the Dutch coastal zone. Both programs were commissioned by Rijkswaterstaat WVL. The study of Aleutian terns in Alaska was funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Pacific Seabird Program (Grant ID 61777), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and Oregon State University Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, & Conservation Sciences.

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Kralj, J., Ponchon, A., Oro, D., Amadesi, B., Arizaga, J., Baccetti, N., Boulinier, T., Cecere, J. G., Corman, A., Enners, L., Fleishman, A., Garthe, S., Grémillet, D., Harding, A., Igual, J. M., Jurinović, L., Kubetzki, U., Lyons, D. E., Orben, R., ... Fijn, R. (2023). Active breeding seabirds prospect alternative breeding colonies. Oecologia, 201(2), 341-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05331-y

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