Barrier crossing in small avian migrants: individual tracking reveals prolonged nocturnal flights into the day as a common migratory strategy

Over decades it has been unclear how individual migratory songbirds cross large ecological barriers such as seas or deserts. By deploying light-level geolocators on four songbird species weighing only about 12 g, we found that these otherwise mainly nocturnal migrants seem to regularly extend their...

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Autores principales: Adamík, Peter, Emmenegger, Tamara, Briedis, Martins, Gustafsson, Lars, Henshaw, Ian, Krist, Miloš, Laaksonen, Toni, Liechti, Felix, Procházka, Petr, Salewski, Volker, Hahn, Steffen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26876925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21560

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4753512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26876925
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep21560

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