Like humans, some birds can spend years learning and exploring before developing more settled habits.
A study of northern gannets has shown adults return to the same patch of sea over and over again to find food.
Like humans, some birds can spend years learning and exploring before developing more settled habits.
A study of northern gannets has shown adults return to the same patch of sea over and over again to find food.
But younger gannets search far and wide and tend not to return to the same places – even if they find good hunting grounds, University of Exeter researchers found.
The study also compared successful breeding adults with those which failed to breed, and found successful breeders stuck to their feeding grounds more reliably.
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