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Costs of migration in free-flying songbirds

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  • Martin Wikelski

    (Princeton University
    University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
    Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign)

  • Elisa M. Tarlow

    (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

  • Arlo Raim

    (Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign)

  • Robert H. Diehl

    (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

  • Ronald P. Larkin

    (Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign)

  • G. Henk Visser

    (Centre for Isotope Research, Groningen University
    Zoological Laboratory)

Abstract

Billions of songbirds migrate between continents twice each year, but the energy costs of this feat have never been measured for free-flying individuals. Here we follow New World Catharus thrushes during their nocturnal migratory flights1,2, recapturing individuals after journeys of up to 600 km and determining their energy expenditure by using doubly labelled water3,4. Although flight itself is costly, our results confirm the counterintuitive prediction that songbirds expend double the amount of energy during stopovers that they spend on flight over their entire migration5,6.

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  • Martin Wikelski & Elisa M. Tarlow & Arlo Raim & Robert H. Diehl & Ronald P. Larkin & G. Henk Visser, 2003. "Costs of migration in free-flying songbirds," Nature, Nature, vol. 423(6941), pages 704-704, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:423:y:2003:i:6941:d:10.1038_423704a
    DOI: 10.1038/423704a
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    1. Maitreyi Sur & Tony Suffredini & Stephen M Wessells & Peter H Bloom & Michael Lanzone & Sheldon Blackshire & Srisarguru Sridhar & Todd Katzner, 2017. "Improved supervised classification of accelerometry data to distinguish behaviors of soaring birds," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(4), pages 1-19, April.
    2. Ben B Chapman & Anders Eriksen & Henrik Baktoft & Jakob Brodersen & P Anders Nilsson & Kaj Hulthen & Christer Brönmark & Lars-Anders Hansson & Peter Grønkjær & Christian Skov, 2013. "A Foraging Cost of Migration for a Partially Migratory Cyprinid Fish," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(5), pages 1-6, May.

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