Morphological and genetic analyses reveal the first Mediterranean occurrence of American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus

Salvador  García Barcelona; Tereza Senfeld; Thomas Shannon; Jon Collinson; Pim  Edelaar; Asier  Aldalur; Gabriel  Martín; Juan Luis  García Mudarra; Javier  Juste

doi:10.2436/20.8100.01.28

Morphological and genetic analyses reveal the first Mediterranean occurrence of American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus

Salvador García Barcelona, Tereza Senfeld, Thomas Shannon, Jon Collinson, Pim Edelaar, Asier Aldalur, Gabriel Martín, Juan Luis García Mudarra, Javier Juste

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Abstract

We report here the first record of an American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus in a Mediterranean coastal site (18 February–14 March 2019, Fuengirola, Malaga, S Spain). This gull was an adult bird and its identification was confirmed by a combination of mtDNA molecular analyses and morphological characters. This record furthermore stands as possibly the first ever adult bird of the ‘Niagara’ phenotype in Europe, which would indicate that it originated from the central region of USA/Canada or even from the west coast. This is the southernmost
record of an adult bird of this species in the Western Palearctic and the eleventh for the Iberian Peninsula since 1991.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	12
Journal	Revista catalana d'ornitologia = Catalan journal of ornithology
Volume	37
Early online date	1 Jan 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2436/20.8100.01.28
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2021

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Acknowledgements
Special thanks are due to the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions that helped improve this manuscript. As well, many gull-lovers contributed to the funding of the analyses and the identification of this gull: Peter Adriaens, Camilo Albert, Carlos Álvarez Cros, Amaya Alzaga, David Calleja, Albert Cama, Sophie
Demian Picollet, María Fidela García, Delfín González, Aurora G. Tarodo, Antonio Gutiérrez, Ricard Gutiérrez, Pere Josa, Daniel López Velasco, Joaquín López, Ignacio A. Menéndez, Jesús Menéndez, José Luis Pacheco, Rafael Palomo, Ricardo Rodríguez, J. Antonio Salazar, Tito Salvadores, J.R. Sánchez Buga, Xabier Saralegui, J. A. Sarrión, Xabier Varela, Nacho
Vega and Montserrat Vilosa.

Keywords

American Herring Gull
Cytb
COI
gene sequence
mtDNA
vagrancy

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García Barcelona, S., Senfeld, T., Shannon, T., Collinson, J., Edelaar, P., Aldalur, A., Martín, G., García Mudarra, J. L., & Juste, J. (2021). Morphological and genetic analyses reveal the first Mediterranean occurrence of American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus. Revista catalana d'ornitologia = Catalan journal of ornithology, 37, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.2436/20.8100.01.28

García Barcelona, S, Senfeld, T, Shannon, T, Collinson, J, Edelaar, P, Aldalur, A, Martín, G, García Mudarra, JL & Juste, J 2021, 'Morphological and genetic analyses reveal the first Mediterranean occurrence of American Herring Gull Larus smithsonianus', Revista catalana d'ornitologia = Catalan journal of ornithology, vol. 37, pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.2436/20.8100.01.28

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