A migratory lifestyle is associated with shorter telomeres in a songbird
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Birds have very much more different telomere dynamics.
So aside from that, average telomere length is typically measured in immune cells from a blood sample. Telomere length shortens with each cell division, and stem cells delivery new cells with long telomeres. So in immune cells you are going to get a fuzzy metric that depends on everything known to influence immune function filtered through a combination of immune cell replication and replacement rates. So stress, injury, exertion, diet, infection, age, etc, etc.
What you end up with is a statistical measure that can support any number of theories, being fairly distant from underlying processes, and influenced by many processes. There's a lot of variation in the literature, and many contradictory datasets and interpretations.
That again is entirely distinct from the evolutionary background that leads to a species having telomeres that start at a given length, and there are wide variations in that metric across species - just look at mice and humans.