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Breeding latitude drives individual schedules in a trans-hemispheric migrant bird

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  • Jesse R. Conklin

    (Ecology Group, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University)

  • Phil F. Battley

    (Ecology Group, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University)

  • Murray A. Potter

    (Ecology Group, Institute of Natural Resources, Massey University)

  • James W. Fox

    (British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council)

Abstract

Despite clear benefits of optimal arrival time on breeding grounds, migration schedules may vary with an individual bird's innate quality, non-breeding habitat or breeding destination. Here, we show that for the bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica baueri), a shorebird that makes the longest known non-stop migratory flights of any bird, timing of migration for individual birds from a non-breeding site in New Zealand was strongly correlated with their specific breeding latitudes in Alaska, USA, a 16,000–18,000 km journey away. Furthermore, this variation carried over even to the southbound return migration, 6 months later, with birds returning to New Zealand in approximately the same order in which they departed. These tightly scheduled movements on a global scale suggest endogenously controlled routines, with breeding site as the primary driver of temporal variation throughout the annual cycle.

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  • Jesse R. Conklin & Phil F. Battley & Murray A. Potter & James W. Fox, 2010. "Breeding latitude drives individual schedules in a trans-hemispheric migrant bird," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 1(1), pages 1-6, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:1:y:2010:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms1072
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1072
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