Living on the edge – Lesser black-backed gulls foraging and breeding at a coastal-urban interface University of Antwerp
Lesser black-backed gulls once successfully adapted to anthropogenic environments, indicating a high degree of behavioural plasticity. They are also considered to be generalist feeders with a wide ecological niche. But most individuals do not exploit the complete range of habitats and resources that are available, they rather specialize. However, the adaptive significance of such specialization likely depends on the predictability of the ...