ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Birds use individually consistent temperature cues to time their migration departure.
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- A partial migrant relies upon a range-wide cue set but uses population-specific weighting for migratory timing.Movement ecology · 2021Article
- Ontogenetic shifts from social to experiential learning drive avian migration timing.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Birds use individually consistent temperature cues to time their migration departure.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
A fundamental issue in migration biology is how birds decide when to start their journey, given that arriving too early or too late in a variable environment reduces individual fitness. Internal circannual regulation and predictable cues such as photoperiod prepare birds for migration, while variable external cues such as temperature and wind are thought to fine-tune departure times; however, this has not been demonstrated at the key point at which an individual animal decides to start migrating. In theory, environmental cues correlated between departure and arrival sites allow informed departure decisions. For 48 satellite-tracked Asian houbara
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