'World’s fastest seagull' stuns experts

Name: 'World's fastest seagull' stuns experts
Uploaded: 2019-07-30T15:40:38-04:00
Duration: 1 min 26 s
Description: A lesser black-backed seagull, is stunning experts with its apparent speed, traveling more than 500 miles in just seven days.

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'World's fastest seagull' stuns experts

A lesser black-backed seagull, is stunning experts with its apparent speed, traveling more than 500 miles in just seven days. The seagull which was ringed on Burhou in the Channel islands on July 17, was later found at Ares Beach in A Coruna Spain, on July 24. Alderney Bird Observatory warden John Horton said that the distance traveled by the bird in such a short period of time was unusual.

A seagull that traveled more than 500 miles from Britain to Spain in just seven days has stunned experts.

The lesser black-backed gull was recorded by the Alderney Bird Observatory in the Channel Islands on July 17, the Observatory explained, in a Facebook post. The same bird was spotted at Ares Beach in A Coruna Spain, on July 24.

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“The individual has travelled 838km [520.7 miles] in 7 days!,” the Bird Observatory wrote, in its Facebook post.

The bird had originally been ringed at Burhou Island in the Channel Islands, enabling researchers to record its movements.

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Alderney Bird Observatory warden John Horton said that the distance traveled by the bird in such a short period of time was unusual. "It could be wind direction. It could have known there was a safe place with plenty to eat so it just headed straight there,” he told SWNS. "They have stop-off points along their migration."