Recruitment
Direct recruitment from an uninformed state was essentially absent except for rare cases in the oldest age class. Recruitment probabilities were highest for three-year-old and four-year-old gulls. Recruitment into the breeding population c…
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Direct recruitment from an uninformed state was essentially absent except for rare cases in the oldest age class. Recruitment probabilities were highest for three-year-old and four-year-old gulls. Recruitment into the breeding population can occur across several sexually mature ages in species with delayed maturity. Audouin's gulls usually recruited only after first visiting the colony in earlier breeding seasons.