A Transcontinental Migratory Passage Linking the Indian Ocean With the Arctic Ocean: Migration of Heuglin's Gulls From Tropics to Arctic
ABSTRACT Heuglin's Gulls ( Larus heuglini ) GPS‐tracked from Sri Lanka to the Arctic in successive years followed a combination of coastal and overland routes through Eurasia (~8000 km) instead of the shortest maritime (~15,000 km) or shortest transcontinental (6346 km) routes, revealing a novel transcontinental passage for seabirds between the Indian and Arctic Oceans.
Authors
- Iromi Kusum Wijethunge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3575-7583)
- Gayomini Panagoda
- Sampath S. Seneviratne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2159-4410)
- S Balachandran
- Taej Mundkur (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4567-4274)
- Yanlei Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8160-0141)
- Beixi Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3634-9437)
- Sarath W. Kotagama
- Lei Cao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4289-4025)
- Fanjuan Meng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4968-2302)
Institutions
- Wetlands International (NL)
- South China Normal University (CN)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Bombay Natural History Society (IN)
- University of Colombo (LK)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Biotropica
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.70045
- Primary Topic
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- University of Colombo
- State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology
- Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences