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MOVEMENT ECOLOGY
卷 4, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-016-0067-8
关键词
Migration; Age; Route; Automated telemetry; Songbird; Stopover; Ipswich Sparrow
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资金
- Encana Corporation's Deep Panuke Education & Training and Research & Development Fund
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Collaborative Research and Development grant
- Canadian Wildlife Federation
- Environment Canada
- Parks Canada
- Department of Fisheries and Oceans
- ExxonMobil
Background: Island breeding birds present an ideal system for studying migratory movements in passerines because their populations are clearly demarcated, and individuals must depart on migration from a single location. The Ipswich Sparrow (Paserculus sandwichensis princeps) is a subspecies of the Savannah Sparrow that breeds exclusively on Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada and winters along the Atlantic coast of North America. We used a network of 34 automated VHF telemetry receivers to track radio-tagged adult and juvenile Ipswich Sparrows from their breeding island southward through the first half of their fall migratory journey. Results: We compared adult to juvenile timing and routes. We show that juveniles leave the island approximately 24 days prior to adults and remain temporally separated from them during migration through Nova Scotia. Juveniles have different overwater orientations that result in migratory routes with shorter ocean crossings and a longer overall distance travelled compared to adults. Juveniles also have more frequent and longer stopovers, and displayed some reverse migration. Conclusion: We demonstrate that migratory routes differ between adults and juveniles, suggesting that routes change as individuals age, possibly through learning or social interactions. These differential routes also suggest that sparrows experience risk in different ways with juveniles selecting shorter overwater flights with less navigational risk at the cost of increased time spent in migration.
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