A seagull and the city of Porto in the background
Ave would have been identified in Portugal for almost six years and was spotted last February in Israel. It will have traveled more than 4,000 kilometers – almost double the record previously recorded.
A yellow-knee givot identified in Portugal in 2019, when it was still a cub, recently hit a New World Record For the longest registered trip of its species, advances this Monday.
Last February, almost 6 years after its paw was labeled, the bird, which since the Berlengas archipelago traveled with a washer, was sighted in Israelin the reservoir of Shdot Yam, in Emek Hefer, by two forest guards of the authority of nature and the parks of Israel (INPA).
The trip of this seagull is the longest known migration of the species. Traveled More than 4 thousand kilometers – Almost double the record previously recorded, which was only 1,840 kilometers, according to the researcher Amar Ayyash from the United States.
The gay-of-the-leaves (Larus Michahellis) is a species widely distributed through the European coast and is already famous for traveling long distances, especially for hot areas, during winter or to move between reproduction colonies and seeking food.
